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Re:Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really? by biggieshellz on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @11:51AM (#14595555)
Seems to work OK for the Linux kernel, and the tooling is not onerous -- just run checkpatch.pl on your commits before pushing them upstream.
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Re:Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really? by user5994461 on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @11:57AM (#14595622)
The kernel has an official & mandatory rule to enforce tabs, at a length of exactly 8 spaces per tab. Anything that doesn't respect that will be rejected without mercy.
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