TABS in the CPython C source code

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sun Feb 7 01:38:06 EST 2010


In article <q1lbn.5995$pv.4400 at news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
Neil Hodgson  <nyamatongwe+thunder at gmail.com> wrote:
>Alf P. Steinbach:
>>
>> Anyways, I would suggest converting all those tabs to spaces, as e.g.
>> the Boost library project does  --  no tabs allowed.
>
>   This would damage the usefulness of source control histories (svn
>annotate) as all of the converted lines would show this recent cosmetic
>change rather than the previous change which is likely to be a
>substantive modification.

BTW, in case anyone is confused, it's "svn blame" vs "cvs annotate".
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