Merge branch 'js/configurable-tab'

* js/configurable-tab:
  Make the tab width used for whitespace checks configurable
  apply --whitespace=fix: fix tab-in-indent

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 0f8579331e..3f01bd929f 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -522,6 +522,9 @@ core.whitespace::
   part of the line terminator, i.e. with it, `trailing-space`
   does not trigger if the character before such a carriage-return
   is not a whitespace (not enabled by default).
+* `tabwidth=<n>` tells how many character positions a tab occupies; this
+  is relevant for `indent-with-non-tab` and when git fixes `tab-in-indent`
+  errors. The default tab width is 8. Allowed values are 1 to 63.
 
 core.fsyncobjectfiles::
 	This boolean will enable 'fsync()' when writing object files.
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index c80ca5da43..5a7f936429 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -723,6 +723,8 @@ control per path.
 Set::
 
 	Notice all types of potential whitespace errors known to git.
+	The tab width is taken from the value of the `core.whitespace`
+	configuration variable.
 
 Unset::
 
@@ -730,13 +732,13 @@ Unset::
 
 Unspecified::
 
-	Use the value of `core.whitespace` configuration variable to
+	Use the value of the `core.whitespace` configuration variable to
 	decide what to notice as error.
 
 String::
 
 	Specify a comma separate list of common whitespace problems to
-	notice in the same format as `core.whitespace` configuration
+	notice in the same format as the `core.whitespace` configuration
 	variable.