Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces (2016)

Re:Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces (2016) by mmastrac on Friday May 02, 2025 @09:56AM (#43869828)

I've been using Git since the early 2010s and this feature was released in Aug 2019 (https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-23...).

You don't think I looked for it for the first 7-8 years of using Git at least a few times and came up empty? Seems a little uncharitable. Hacker News is a place to learn about stuff, not be chided for missing a point note in a release.

Come on man, you've been using HN for almost as long as I have. Be curious, treat people's comments with charity, continue the life-long learning tradition.

Obligatory XKCD lucky 10,000 link: https://xkcd.com/1053/

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Re:Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces (2016) by js2 on Friday May 02, 2025 @10:13AM (#43870049)

You're right. My apologies. It wasn't meant as a critique. I've been using git even longer and my memory was that the feature had been there way before 2019. Time flies. Relevant commit:

https://github.com/git/git/commit/ae3f36dea16e51041c56ba9ed6...

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Re:Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces (2016) by xiaoyu2006 on Friday May 02, 2025 @11:42AM (#43871297)

I like how the length of the commit message is at the same order of magnitude as the commit itself.

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Re:Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces (2016) by keybored on Friday May 02, 2025 @10:22AM (#43870185)

Thanks. Git (proj.) commits can be an enjoyable read.

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