Tab size

GitHub defaults to showing code with an indents of 8 columns. This is very old-school, corresponding to the default 8 column tabs on ancient terminals. I don't know anyone that would expect to see code displayed this way. I've encountered the same tab behaviour on BitBucket, which is fixed by editing the URL. GitHub allows a similar URL trick, but there's a better way. Create an .editorconfig file in the repository root, like this:

root = true
[*]
indent_style  = tab
indent_size   = 2

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