From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:34:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-rebase.txt: Mention that --whitespace cannot be used with interactive rebase.
Message-ID: <7veiy3i61g.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090212102119.1de19087@crow>

Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com>
> ---
>  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.