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Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces

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Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces

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Git@programming.devEnglish • 2 months ago

Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces

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

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

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