rebase -i and --whitespace, was Re: [PATCH] git-rebase.sh: Update USAGE string (No. 1)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 4, 2008, 15:06 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802041505230.7372@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <200802041113.m14BDLMl004301@mi1.bluebottle.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, しらいしななこ wrote:

> I tried to run "git rebase --interactive --whitespace=strip" but it does 
> not seem to strip blank characters at the end of my lines.  Did I find a 
> bug?

Yes. Interactive rebase never bothered with --whitespace options, since it works purely with cherry-pick (the --merge option to non-interactive rebase). Therefore, the operation is not patch based, and does not call git-apply at all (which would handle the whitespace).

Ciao, Dscho