NondecreasingIndentation (& de-tabbing several .hs files)

Johan Tibell johan.tibell at gmail.com
Fri May 16 13:35:09 UTC 2014


On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk
<fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk>wrote:

> Is there a reason behind not just detabbing (and removing trailing
>  whitespace) the whole tree in a patch? If you're going to detab in a
> separate patch anyway, might as well do all of it once and for all.


There are two reasons:

 * Main reason: it will create lots of merge conflicts for people working
on the code base.
 * Minor reason: you will now be 'git blame'd for most lines of the source.
It's possible to have git ignore that, but it's a source of annoyance.
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