Rainer Orth wrote: > Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> writes: >>> the change at hand. And please don't change the alignment of entries >>> with multiple email addresses. >> >> Changing 8-spaces to a TAB does not affect alignment when you're >> looking at the ChangeLog file itself with standard tab setting. >> >> Perhaps you looked at a hunk like the following and mistook it >> for one that introduces an alignment change? >> >> 2011-11-04 Eric Botcazou <ebotca...@adacore.com> >> - Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> >> + Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> >> >> It does not. > > I'm pretty sure it does: before, you have 12 SPC, afterwards you have > TAB + 3 SPC, which is equivalent to 11 SPC in my book.
Here's the precise excerpt from my patch: 2011-11-04 Eric Botcazou <ebotca...@adacore.com> - Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> + Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> That has TAB + 4, so induced no alignment change. > I honestly don't see the point of this whitespace change unless done > across all ChangeLogs, not just a few that you happen to touch. As I said, it's gone, now, from my patch. If no one objects, I'll normalize all ChangeLog files.
