Dear Masahiro,
In message 20140116095004.E122.AA925319@jp.panasonic.com you wrote:
I do understand you want to use TABs for indentation. But I don't understand why you want to use them in the comment block. I think the part will not be changed often. I'm talking about a TAB between " U-Boot source tree." and "The remainders rest"
-be removed from the U-Boot source tree. The remainders rest in piece -in the imperishable depths of the git history. This document tries to +be removed from the U-Boot source tree. The remainders rest in piece +in the imperishable depths of the git history. This document tries to
I mean, here.
Ah, this was not intentionally. I was running the whole file through "unexpand -a", and this replaces multipe spaces at TAB positions by TABs. I did not notice this.
No. Shorter lines are better. You are right. (But I a little afraid someone who does not understand "TAB + 4 SPACE" rule might break the format.)
Yes - it is likely that later edits will re-introduce spaces, but the we can easily re-fix this by piping the file through "unexpand -a".
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk