Paul Eggert wrote in <430bc674-ecf4-877b-31b9-5e469dcc7b77@cs.ucla.edu>: |On 3/25/22 09:46, Ian Abbott via tz wrote: |> |> I'm not sure, but from the "git blame" output, it looks like Arthur |> Olson pretty much stuck with a shift width of 8 (matching the tab size), |> and Paul's shift widths were a bit more variable, perhaps to fit the |> code in 80 columns nicely, and also more use of lining up the parts of |> expressions split across lines with the opening parentheses of the |> previous lines. | |Yes, Arthur and I have different indentation styles. I've found lesser |indentation to be useful when squeezing in fixes that require deeper |nesting, without going past 80 columns or altering lines that don't need |changing. | |There is a tension between having source code that looks nice and |consistent now, vs a repository where "git blame" works all the way back |to the beginning. I am not sure whether -w could overcome this completely. I have alias.bla blame -w -CCC -M4 --End of <430bc674-ecf4-877b-31b9-5e469dcc7b77@cs.ucla.edu> --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)