From f824f02fd7d70a731d949122df451ab4b0b7a468 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bernhard Posselt <dev@bernhard-posselt.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 09:40:53 +0200
Subject: add explanation for spaces

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 CONTRIBUTING.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'CONTRIBUTING.md')

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 590d8373e..9bcefcc1e 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ You can also send a mail to the [owncloud-devel mailing list](https://mailman.ow
 
 ### Coding Style Guidelines
 
-* Use 4 spaces for indention
+* Use 4 spaces for indention. Why spaces? Because it looks the same on every machine and on the web where you can't normally control the tab width.
 * Place the open curly braces on the same line as the parameter block, e.g.:
   ```php
   if (condition) {
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