Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 176

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On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 23:07, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:47:39PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 22:25, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:18:33PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> >> All tabs in the source code used for indentation are replaced by spaces now. :)
>> >
>> > What?  Why the change?  Are you trying to see if anyone reads these
>> > things? :)
>>
>> Yeah, I know now you read it till the end. :)
>>
>> Why? Because fixed tabs are so pointless, especially mixing tabs and
>> trailing spaces like the kernel does all over the place. It just makes
>> not much sense, we just have been used to it. I personally prefer the
>> non-tab 8-space model now. It's still kernel style and 8 space indent,
>> just without the weird tabs and no 80 char limit. :)
>>
>> And we wanted sync everything up with the systemd tree.
>
> Ok, that's a good enough reason alone, at least I know that 'git blame'
> will never show any lines of code I ever wrote :)

Oh, I checked, because it was wondering too, git blame nicely ignores
whitespace by default. It all looks the same as before.

You still some original lines in the .c files from the very first
bitkeeper commit. But yeah, we shuffled a lot around over the years.

Kay
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