Dealing with whitespace in SVN?

Posted by Eric the Red on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Eric the Red
Published on 2010-05-26T15:27:51Z Indexed on 2010/05/26 15:41 UTC
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All of the SVN shops I've worked in have a strict rule - replace all tabs with spaces, to avoid whitespace conflicts and variations of tabs in different editors.

Is this a very common standard? Does it really make a huge difference, and is it worth the trouble to push this standard to a group of developers new to SVN?

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