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From: Dirk Wallenstein <halsmit@t-online.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: junio@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] howto: Suppress indentation with tabs
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:54:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130731165417.GB11219@bottich> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1375288760.git.halsmit@t-online.de>

The AsciiDoc files in the 'howto' folder are installed as documentation
and AsciiDoc files are meant to be read and printed as is.  To quote the
AsciiDoc Home Page:

    AsciiDoc files are designed to be viewed, edited and printed
    directly or translated to other presentation formats using the
    asciidoc(1) command.

Tabs have the property of a configurable width and can thereby skew the
layout of a page and distort the meaning.  This is particularly a
problem when mixing lines with different indentation (space vs tab) in
code examples and ASCII art.

Prevent such a mix-up by prohibiting tab indentation entirely.

Signed-off-by: Dirk Wallenstein <halsmit@t-online.de>
---
 Documentation/howto/.gitattributes | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/howto/.gitattributes

diff --git a/Documentation/howto/.gitattributes b/Documentation/howto/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fecc113
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/howto/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+* whitespace=tab
-- 
1.8.3.3.2.g85103ba

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-31 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-15 16:46 [PATCH] howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII art Dirk Wallenstein
2013-07-15 22:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-16  8:24   ` Dirk Wallenstein
2013-07-16 17:13     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-16 18:01       ` Dirk Wallenstein
2013-07-31 16:54         ` [PATCH 0/2] Remove tabs from howto documents Dirk Wallenstein
2013-07-31 17:01           ` Fredrik Gustafsson
     [not found]         ` <cover.1375288760.git.halsmit@t-online.de>
2013-07-31 16:54           ` Dirk Wallenstein [this message]
     [not found]           ` <4d37bfa3326469ab5b7cdbf0018f7aa671c2d74a.1375288760.git.halsmit@t-online.de>
2013-07-31 16:54             ` [PATCH 2/2] howto: Eliminate all tabs Dirk Wallenstein
2013-07-31 17:03               ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-31 17:34                 ` Dirk Wallenstein
2013-08-03 20:20                 ` Piotr Krukowiecki
     [not found]                 ` <CAA01CsqW1FWm8ExK7hypHp1_Jm0-kc1REQeuPYjbzU=aUQ+L9g@mail.gmail.com>
2013-08-05 15:32                   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-16 18:26     ` [PATCH] howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII art Jonathan Nieder
2013-07-16 18:38       ` Dirk Wallenstein
2013-07-16 18:42       ` A Large Angry SCM

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