Hi Elijah, On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote: > 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. Ciao, Johannes
