The funniest part of this is that you can make a git hook that formats the code in your project just the way you want it.
I’ve never understood why anyone would insert eight spaces per indent level when a single tab character would suffice. I’ve only been at this profession for forty years, so perhaps there’s something I’ve yet to learn on the topic.
One day I’ll summon the energy to measure how much more disk space a kernel source tree would take by replacing all tabs with eight spaces. At a rough guess I’d estimate closer to 50% than anyone would be comfortable with.
It’s right up there with people using spaces to line up columns in a word processor whilst using a proportional font…
The funniest part of this is that you can make a git hook that formats the code in your project just the way you want it.
I’ve never understood why anyone would insert eight spaces per indent level when a single tab character would suffice. I’ve only been at this profession for forty years, so perhaps there’s something I’ve yet to learn on the topic.
One day I’ll summon the energy to measure how much more disk space a kernel source tree would take by replacing all tabs with eight spaces. At a rough guess I’d estimate closer to 50% than anyone would be comfortable with.
It’s right up there with people using spaces to line up columns in a word processor whilst using a proportional font…