Re: Overriding the value of indent-tabs-mode in Emacs code

[Stefan Monnier]

> This way we don't break each affected line's attribution in 'git blame' (one
> can ask it to ignore whitespace changes, but the user has to know to do
> that, and it makes the command considerably slower).

And doing such wholesale rewrites messes up the merges for everyone
who's maintaining local changes.

Much better if people stop being anal-retentive and stop wasting their
time checking/fiddling what kind of emptiness filling the empty spaces.


        Stefan