Re: Overriding the value of indent-tabs-mode in Emacs code

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 05/26/2016 02:24 AM, Michael Heerdegen wrote:

> Dumb question: why don't we just convert the files to the spaces
> convention, if that's the goal anyway?  Doing it gradually patch by
> patch (patches that are sometimes harder to read) seems to be quite
> troublesome...

This way we don't break each affected line's attribution in 'git blame' 
(one can ask it to ignore whitespace changes, but the user has to know 
to do that, and it makes the command considerably slower).