indentation configuration only for some files

Question

I want to use

git config core.whitespace tab-in-indent,tabwidth=4

I want to have these settings for c++ files, so that I get warnings when ther

Answer 1

As jszakmeister updated from my comment, here's just a sub-section for what you asked about.

• No tab-in-indent allowed for .cpp/.hpp files
• Tab's allowed for Makefiles/makefiles and *.mk files
• No trailing spaces allowed in all
• tabwidth of 4 in all

Notice the usage of the - modifier in the 'makefile-ish' entries to say don't call tab-in-indent an error.

makefile text          whitespace=-tab-in-indent,trailing-space,tabwidth=4
Makefile text          whitespace=-tab-in-indent,trailing-space,tabwidth=4
*.mk     text          whitespace=-tab-in-indent,trailing-space,tabwidth=4
*.cpp    text diff=cpp whitespace=tab-in-indent,trailing-space,tabwidth=4
*.hpp    text diff=cpp whitespace=tab-in-indent,trailing-space,tabwidth=4