[erlang-questions] Controversial subject of the day: tabs and spaces for indentation

[Benoit Chesneau]

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Lukas Larsson <lukas@REDACTED> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Loïc Hoguin <essen@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>>
>> Plus this doesn't help your code get merged at all. If you submit code
>> with broken whitespace, then tools will also display this whitespace
>> change. You can of course hide whitespace changes, but the problem is that
>> whitespace does matter in some places, so you're basically hiding
>> potentially important information by doing that.
>>
>> This is in my opinion the reason why it would be a very bad thing to do a
> huge commit that changes the current whitespace format of a project to
> another. It is already very hard to figure out what change could have
> caused a bug without having to deal with whitespace changes in the middle
> of a diff.
>

well then commit a whitespace change diff, then the change you really
wanted to make. It of course requires to have a standard defined at first :)

- benoit
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