git gurus: Any way to set it up to auto-warn contributors about tab indents?

[dsimcha]

What's wrong with configuring your editor to convert tabs to spaces?  I 
know CodeBlocks, Vim and Notepad++ do this for you if you configure them 
right (though I don't remember exactly how to configure Vim to do this). 
  Any other editor worth its salt should, too.  I use this for all my 
code, not just Phobos.  I prefer to type a tab because it's much easier 
to type than some specific number of spaces, but I prefer to have spaces 
in my code because they take up a consistent amount of columns on all 
viewers, whereas different tab stops can really make your code look messy.

On 8/14/2011 2:36 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Ok, I'm one of the "tab-indent" fans, and obviously there are others out
> there. So in contributing some pull requests to phobos/rdmd I've noticed how
> easy it is to forget to convert tabs->spaces before pushing. And others make
> the same mistake too. Aside from being an inconsistent syle issue, this
> seems to increase the chances of merge conflicts.
>
> Obviously I could set up some script on my end to auto-check before
> committing, but that's a per-user solution and so wouldn't really help the
> overall problem. Plus it probably wouldn't work with the GUI git tools like
> tortoise.
>
> I don't know if this has already been looked into, but to any git/github
> gurus here: Is there some way to set up the "D-Programming-Language"
> projects (either in git or in github) so that users get warned when they
> have tab indents and try to commit, push, or pull-request (any one of those
> three, wouldn't need to be all three of them)?
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