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From: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
To: phillip.wood123@gmail.com
Cc: Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de, git@vger.kernel.org,
	gitster@pobox.com, martin.agren@gmail.com, newren@gmail.com,
	rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com, t.gummerer@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [GSoC][PATCHl 1/6] rebase -i: add --ignore-whitespace flag
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 23:13:29 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190812174329.13995-1-rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bdd867f3-62d6-eec2-9562-5dbe203f49b5@gmail.com>

Hi Phillip

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 17:44:38 +0100 Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> >   --ignore-whitespace::
> > +	This flag is either passed to the 'git apply' program
> > +	(see linkgit:git-apply[1]), or to 'git merge' program
> > +	(see linkgit:git-merge[1]) as `-Xignore-space-change`,
> > +	depending on which backend is selected by other options.
> 
> I think it would be better to document the effect of this option rather
> than the implementation detail. It is confusing at the moment as it
> talks about 'git merge' but we don't allow this option with merges.

Oh, it is just to indicate the user where to look for the definitions
as currently the behaviour of both the backends is not exactly the
same neither do they work optimally. Hope in future when they are in
harmony, then we can happily change it to match the then behaviour.

> [...]

Thanks
Rohit


  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-12 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-06 17:36 [GSoC][PATCHl 0/6] rebase -i: support more options Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-06 17:36 ` [GSoC][PATCHl 1/6] rebase -i: add --ignore-whitespace flag Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-07  5:38   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-07 20:25     ` Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-08 16:44   ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-12 17:43     ` Rohit Ashiwal [this message]
2019-08-06 17:36 ` [GSoC][PATCHl 2/6] sequencer: add NULL checks under read_author_script Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-06 17:36 ` [GSoC][PATCHl 3/6] rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-08 11:29   ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-08 16:00     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-06 17:36 ` [GSoC][PATCHl 4/6] sequencer: rename amend_author to author_to_rename Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-08 11:30   ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-06 17:36 ` [GSoC][PATCHl 5/6] rebase -i: support --ignore-date Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-07 19:41   ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-08-07 20:22     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-07 20:33       ` Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-08 11:42   ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-08 16:53     ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-06 17:36 ` [GSoC][PATCHl 6/6] rebase: add --author-date-is-committer-date Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-08 11:42   ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-12 19:42 ` [GSoC][PATCH v2 0/6] rebase -i: support more options Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-12 19:42   ` [GSoC][PATCH v2 1/6] rebase -i: add --ignore-whitespace flag Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-13 12:07     ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-12 19:42   ` [GSoC][PATCH v2 2/6] sequencer: add NULL checks under read_author_script Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-12 19:42   ` [GSoC][PATCH v2 3/6] rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-13 10:38     ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-13 12:09       ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-13 17:06       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-14 18:38         ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-13 13:35     ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-12 19:42   ` [GSoC][PATCH v2 4/6] sequencer: rename amend_author to author_to_rename Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-13 13:29     ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-12 19:42   ` [GSoC][PATCH v2 5/6] rebase -i: support --ignore-date Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-13 13:28     ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-13 17:21       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-14 18:47         ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-13 21:45     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-14 18:51       ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-14 19:33         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-17  9:28           ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-12 19:43   ` [GSoC][PATCH v2 6/6] rebase: add --author-date-is-committer-date Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-13 17:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-20  3:45 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] rebase -i: support more options Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-20  3:45   ` [PATCH v3 1/6] rebase -i: add --ignore-whitespace flag Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-20 18:40     ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-20 18:47       ` Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-20  3:45   ` [PATCH v3 2/6] sequencer: add NULL checks under read_author_script Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-23 15:20     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-20  3:45   ` [PATCH v3 3/6] rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-20 13:32     ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-20  3:45   ` [PATCH v3 4/6] sequencer: rename amend_author to author_to_rename Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-20  3:45   ` [PATCH v3 5/6] rebase -i: support --ignore-date Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-20 13:45     ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-20 17:42     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-20 18:30       ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-20  3:45   ` [GSoC][PATCH v2 6/6] rebase: add --author-date-is-committer-date Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-20  4:00     ` Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-20  3:45   ` [PATCH v3 6/6] rebase: add --reset-author-date Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-20  3:54   ` [PATCH v3 0/6] rebase -i: support more options Rohit Ashiwal
2019-08-20 13:56   ` Phillip Wood
2019-08-20 17:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-20 18:37       ` Phillip Wood
2019-09-07 11:50 ` [PATCH v4 " Rohit Ashiwal
2019-09-07 11:50   ` [PATCH v4 1/6] rebase -i: add --ignore-whitespace flag Rohit Ashiwal
2019-10-04  9:29     ` Phillip Wood
2019-10-05 18:12       ` Elijah Newren
2019-10-06 17:57       ` Rohit Ashiwal
2019-09-07 11:50   ` [PATCH v4 2/6] sequencer: allow callers of read_author_script() to ignore fields Rohit Ashiwal
2019-09-07 11:50   ` [PATCH v4 3/6] rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date Rohit Ashiwal
2019-10-04  9:37     ` Phillip Wood
2019-10-06 17:57       ` Rohit Ashiwal
2019-10-24 13:28     ` Phillip Wood
2019-09-07 11:50   ` [PATCH v4 4/6] sequencer: rename amend_author to author_to_rename Rohit Ashiwal
2019-09-07 11:50   ` [PATCH v4 5/6] rebase -i: support --ignore-date Rohit Ashiwal
2019-09-07 20:56     ` Rohit Ashiwal
2019-09-27 10:00     ` Phillip Wood
2019-10-06 17:57       ` Rohit Ashiwal
2019-10-24 20:36         ` Phillip Wood
2019-09-07 11:50   ` [PATCH v4 6/6] rebase: add --reset-author-date Rohit Ashiwal
2019-09-09 18:02   ` [PATCH v4 0/6] rebase -i: support more options Junio C Hamano
2019-09-09 18:51     ` Phillip Wood
2019-09-09 19:24       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-01 13:59 ` [PATCH v5 " Rohit Ashiwal
2019-11-01 13:59   ` [PATCH v5 1/6] rebase -i: add --ignore-whitespace flag Rohit Ashiwal
2019-11-01 13:59   ` [PATCH v5 2/6] sequencer: allow callers of read_author_script() to ignore fields Rohit Ashiwal
2019-11-01 14:00   ` [PATCH v5 3/6] rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date Rohit Ashiwal
2019-11-01 14:00   ` [PATCH v5 4/6] sequencer: rename amend_author to author_to_rename Rohit Ashiwal
2019-11-01 14:00   ` [PATCH v5 5/6] rebase -i: support --ignore-date Rohit Ashiwal
2019-11-02  7:32     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-02  7:48       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-01 14:00   ` [PATCH v5 6/6] rebase: add --reset-author-date Rohit Ashiwal
2019-11-02  7:34     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-21  6:14   ` [PATCH v5 0/6] rebase -i: support more options Junio C Hamano
2019-11-21  8:17     ` Alban Gruin
2019-11-22  6:32       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-28 11:14   ` Phillip Wood

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