June blog post 1: Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces (Patreon)

Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces / fuzzy notepad

This post is about the thing in the title. I used to work for Yelp. For historical reasons - probably "the initial developers preferred it" - their mostly-Python codebase had always been indented with tabs. That's in stark contrast to the vast majority of the Python ecosystem, which generally uses the standard library's style guide recommendation of four spaces.