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

[Michael Heerdegen]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

> 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).

Aahh - too bad.


Thanks,

Michael.