In that thread the OP decides that the needs of a few outweigh the needs of the many. He went from trying to achieve "consistency across environments," which is very convenient and efficient to purposely making his workflow less efficient and more time consuming to suit the needs of two co-workers in an environment where his code will probably be read hundreds of times.
Develop how you want to develop and commit how your codebase is written. How is that hard? I guarantee whatever IDE you use has a feature to convert/change the indendation model of a file. Why is this even a topic?
You're not going to guilt me into using spaces because two people who read my code didn't like it. If you're using tab-width 8 I'm probably not going to like reading your code very much either. Does that mean you should change your entire workflow to suit me?
Develop how you want to develop and commit how your codebase is written. How is that hard? I guarantee whatever IDE you use has a feature to convert/change the indendation model of a file. Why is this even a topic?
You're not going to guilt me into using spaces because two people who read my code didn't like it. If you're using tab-width 8 I'm probably not going to like reading your code very much either. Does that mean you should change your entire workflow to suit me?