Re: [RFC PATCH v2] Teach rebase to rebase even if upstream is up to date

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 14, 2009, 19:56 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr620ssfp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <bd6139dc0902140957pa5852d6m61211054b3f5e395@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 07:07, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> I know that you can turn it off with --whitespace=nowarn, but that's
>> such an outlier that we do not have to care about it, right?
>
> Well, actually, in the v1 thread Junio mentioned that it should not
> imply -f for --whitespace=nowarn.
>
>> Or if we really want to:
>>
>>        --whitespace=nowarn) ;;
>>        --whitespace=*) force_rebase=t ;;
>>
>> Hm?
>
> No strong opinion on my side, what does the gitster have to say about it?

"Fix" is obviously a request to "fix" things. On the other hand, at least to me, "warn" is more about "*if you were to* rewrite and find issues, please notify me". So I prefer what is queued already.