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

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:56:58 -0800

Sverre Rabbelier <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 07:07, Johannes Schindelin
> <[email-masked]> 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.