Re: rebase --merge vs --whitespace=fix, was Re: [PATCH v5 00/10] rebase: fix several code/testing/documentation issues around flag incompatibilities

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> Hi Elijah,
>
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:
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> > We had a report about --update-refs being ignored when --whitespace=fix
> > was passed, confusing an end user. These were already marked as
> > incompatible in the manual, but the code didn't check for the
> > incompatibility and provide an error to the user.
>
> Thank you for working on this!
>
> FWIW this report (and your patch series) made me wistful about that Google
> Summer of Code project that I hoped would bring about the trick to combine
> `--whitespace=fix` with interactive rebases. But in that GSoC project,
> this goal was treated as a "bonus feature" and pushed so far back that we
> did not even get to analyzing the complexity of the task, let alone any
> details.
>
> So I sat down and started that analysis. The result is
> https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/1472 where you can see that
> addressing the incompatibility is definitely outside of trivial. It does
> seem doable, if Outreachy/GSoC project-sized.