[pavel_lishin]

I do not keep my code in a minified state, but we do minify it before serving it on the web.

I also do not access my code on a mobile device.

And I wouldn't reduce it because I have 122 gigabytes of space free on my machine, and absolutely do not care about saving 200 bytes worth of space, even considering it's per commit.

After all, you could reduce your code by even more by minifying it before adding it to your SCM, right? (I know, I know, if you take out line-breaks, diffs will become unreadable).

[amcgregor]

With no downsides to using tabs over spaces, and wanting to preserve readable SCM diffs, saving 20% of the space for such diffs just happens to be a nice side benefit, not the primary one. (The primary one being flexibility in presentation.)

Saying you don't conform to a use case does not invalidate said use case.