From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Overriding the value of indent-tabs-mode in Emacs code
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 18:40:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iny1so41.fsf@red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oa7twwjw.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Thu, 26 May 2016 01:24:35 +0200")
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
>Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
>> We do. Gradually. Using .dir-locals.el.
>
>Dumb question: why don't we just convert the files to the spaces
>convention, if that's the goal anyway? Doing it gradually patch by
>patch (patches that are sometimes harder to read) seems to be quite
>troublesome...
It might be worth it, but it does cause a "blame shadow" across the whole source tree at that point in history. That is, when one is using 'git blame' to find out the provenance of certain lines of code, one's view into the past gets obscured by this single revision that touched gazillions of lines of the Emacs source code.
This can be worked around, of course -- you just step back past that special revision and try again -- but it is a bit of inconvenience when one is digging through history.
(Subversion did something like this in 2006: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=858545)
Best regards,
-Karl
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2016-05-25 12:48 ` Overriding the value of indent-tabs-mode in Emacs code Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-25 21:44 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-25 22:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-25 22:11 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-25 22:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-25 22:36 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-25 22:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-25 23:24 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-05-25 23:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-25 23:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-26 10:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-26 12:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-27 19:45 ` John Wiegley
2016-05-27 19:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-27 20:19 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-27 20:53 ` John Wiegley
2016-05-26 0:00 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-05-25 23:40 ` Karl Fogel [this message]
2016-05-26 0:02 ` Michael Heerdegen
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