Whitespace-Mode isn’t compatible with Magit

[joncol]

After the latest update of Magit, when trying to run magit-status after enabling global-whitespace-mode I get the error message: user-error: Whitespace-Mode isn’t compatible with Magit. See magit-diff-paint-whitespace' for an alternative.`

This has not been a problem before.

Version info: Magit 20180211.700, Git 2.16.1, Emacs 26.0.90, gnu/linux

[tarsius]

This has not been a problem before.

Nothing changed on Magit's side, but three people reported this over the last 24 hours. Do you use some starter-kit?

[tarsius]

For work-arounds see https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/38771/magit-status-does-not-open-when-using-global-whitespace-mode-1/38779.

[joncol]

No starter kit used by me. I also tried starting using the output of magit-emacs-Q-command, then running global-whitespace-mode followed by magit-status, which caused the same error message to appear.

I'll check out the link you provided, thanks!

[joncol]

The first answer in the link provided seems to solve the problem for me. It's weird that this issue just started showing up, though. Anyway, do as you want with this issue, close it or leave it open.

Thanks for the good work on Magit!

[basil-conto]

FWIW, I committed the same fix as in the linked SE question to my dotfiles repo last week, so whatever caused the sudden change happened on or before 2018-02-02. I also periodically build Emacs from master, though, so I can't rule out the change being caused or exposed by something in Emacs proper, but the fact that there are multiple reports for this around the same time reduces the likelihood of that.