phayman Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 In Visual studio, tabs are treated as 4 spaces (configurable actually).. in the internal plastic merge tool, tabs display as 8 spaces.. I've run into a problem where one of our devs switches out all the spaces with tabs on one branch, then when you merge from another branch the comparison in the tool lays out in an unreadabe format. I've told the dev to stop converting to tabs (it's actually the ms vs2010 developer extension that's doing it). It would be great if we cold tell the diff tool to view tabs as n spaces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epeleg Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Hi Paul, Both diff and merge tools have a setting for selecting the number of spaces that count for a tab. you should have no problem configuring it. Eyal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phayman Posted May 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 It seems that the middle pane shows tabs as wider than the left too i've noticed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phayman Posted May 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Eyal, thanks for pointing that out.. I've found the setting in the diff tool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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