On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 09:10:06AM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Am 7/18/2012 8:20, schrieb Martin von Zweigbergk: > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> pick_one () { > >> ff=--ff > >> + > >> case "$1" in -n) sha1=$2; ff= ;; *) sha1=$1 ;; esac > >> case "$force_rebase" in '') ;; ?*) ff= ;; esac > >> output git rev-parse --verify $sha1 || die "Invalid commit name: $sha1" > >> + > >> + if is_empty_commit "$sha1" > >> + then > >> + empty_args="--allow-empty" > >> + fi > >> + > >> test -d "$rewritten" && > >> pick_one_preserving_merges "$@" && return > >> - output git cherry-pick $ff "$@" > >> + output git cherry-pick $empty_args $ff "$@" > > > > The is_empty_commit check seems to mean that if $sha1 is an "empty" > > commit, we pass the --allow-empty option to cherry-pick. If it's not > > empty, we don't. The word "allow" in "allow-empty" suggests that even > > if the commit is not empty, cherry-pick would not mind. So, can we > > always pass "allow-empty" to cherry-pick (i.e. even if the commit to > > pick is not empty)? > > I don't think so. If the commit is not empty, but all its changes are > already in HEAD, then it will become "empty" when cherry-picked to HEAD. > In such a case, we usually do not want to record an empty commit, but stop > rebase to give to user a chance to deal with the situation. > > -- Hannes > Yes, this is the meaning. "Allow" was used in the sense of a filter, in that we are allowing an empty commit to make it into the history, whereas a rebase or cherry-pick would normally exclude it. Neil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html