Re: [PATCH] git-rebase.txt: Mention that --whitespace cannot be used with interactive rebase.

Mark Burton [off-list ref] writes:

So is it "not supported when using", or "incompatible with"?

If the option is silently ignored, it is former, and we have a bug.  If
the program refuses to work then it is the latter.

Hi,

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Mark Burton [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Signed-off-by: Mark Burton <redacted>
---
 Documentation/git-rebase.txt |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 3d6d429..60582a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt

@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ OPTIONS
 --whitespace=<nowarn|warn|error|error-all|strip>::
 	This flag is passed to the 'git-apply' program
 	(see linkgit:git-apply[1]) that applies the patch.
+	Not supported when using the --interactive option.

So is it "not supported when using", or "incompatible with"?

If the option is silently ignored, it is former, and we have a bug.  If
the program refuses to work then it is the latter.

The program outputs the usage and dies when -i and --whitespace (or for 
that matter, -C) are passed.

Ciao,
Dscho