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Re:Tabs or Spaces? The Top Starred Repositories in GitHub An... by MichaelGG on Saturday December 26, 2015 @08:04PM (#10795967)
Auto CrLf is a terrible thing that can change the meaning of programs. Source control shouldn't be changing the contents of files (though a hook to format wouldn't be bad necessarily).
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Re:Tabs or Spaces? The Top Starred Repositories in GitHub An... by smt88 on Saturday December 26, 2015 @09:23PM (#10796133)
Auto CRLF is awesome for languages I use. Which ones can it change meaning in?
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Re:Tabs or Spaces? The Top Starred Repositories in GitHub An... by MichaelGG on Sunday December 27, 2015 @11:35AM (#10797881)
Any language that allows string literals to wrap lines without normalizing it. Like C# or F#. Anything with HERE docs might do it, but Ruby and Python seem to normalize.
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