Re: Rebase fails because of apply.whitespace setting

John Feuerstein [off-list ref] writes:

I had to rewrite history recently (ugh -- private repo, not shared with
anybody) and wanted to change the commit message of the root commit.
During this I've encountered a failing git-rebase if apply.whitespace is
set to "error".

Should whitespace-errors really be detected when rebasing?
(or worse: be "fixed" without explicitely asking for it when using a
global apply.whitespace=fix setting)

I've seen this argued both ways.  Some people seem to be happy that they
can use rebase with whitespace=fix to clean up their mess.  Some people
quite rightly oppose it (I am slightly closer to the latter camp myself,
but that does not count that much).

I'd agree that whitespace=error won't help anybody here.

Perhaps rebase can be taught to take --whitespace=warn from the command
line to override whatever is in the configuration?