On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 17:38:34 -0800
Bryce Harrington <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:09:17AM +0800, Jonas Ådahl wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 03:26:16PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:  
> > > On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 04:33:47PM +0800, Jonas Ådahl wrote:  
> > > > This copies the version 5 of the XML to a new version 6 version, while
> > > > at the same time the interface names are changed to use the unstable
> > > > naming convention.
> > > > 
> > > > A whitespace cleanup was done as no git-blame:ability would be lost
> > > > anyway.  
> > > 
> > > Just a bikeshed but would love to see tabs just go away in the xml
> > > files.  They make protocol patches end up weirdly indented oftentimes.
> > > Otherwise...  
> > 
> > I too prefer spaces instead of tabs in XML files, but it seems spaces
> > lost to tabs in what has become the overwhelming majority of indentation
> > style in these XML files.  
> 
> Was there an explicit reason to favor tabs?  Mere tradition seems not
> terribly compelling given that we've forced a rename and migration to a
> new repo only just recently.  I'd be happy to volunteer for their
> replacement.

Is there ever any better rationale to choose between spaces and tabs
than tradition, i.e. what is being already used...

Though I would say that tab width being 8 has strong backing by
traditions and conventions all over that I would not change that.

I personally do not care whether we go for spaces-only or 8-wide tabs
like now with XML files, because the indentation increment is already
not tab-wide. I would like to see consistency at least within a file.
XML nests far too much to have any super-useful indentation anyway IMHO.

If you want to change the whitespace in all XML files, I won't object,
but I don't think it is useful either. We'll just have to remember to
use 'git blame -w' like Mike mentioned if you do it.


Thanks,
pq

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