Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces
eev.ee
This post is about the thing in the title. I used to work for Yelp. For historical reasons — probably “the initial developers preferred it” — their mostly-Python codebase had always been in
  • ulternoEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    It was because people wanted alignment on top of indentation, which would mean, you would be using tabs+spaces, making it ugly.

    I am in no-alignment btw

    • pohart
      3·
      2 days ago

      Alignment should be handled by the editor, if the user wants it