On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 11:36:18AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Devin J. Pohly" <djpohly@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I think your point is interesting too, though. If a commit is also > > TREESAME to its parent(s?) in the _pre-filtered_ branch, it seems > > reasonable that someone might want to leave it in the filtered branch as > > an empty commit while pruning empt*ied* commits. I would imagine that > > as another option (--prune-newly-empty?). > > I was hoping to hear from others who may care about filter-branch to > comment on this topic to help me decide, but I haven't heard > anything, so here is my tentative thinking. > > I am leaning to: > > * Take your series as-is, which would mean --prune-empty will > change the behaviour to unconditionally lose the empty root. > > * Then, people who care deeply about it can add a new option that > prunes commits that become empty while keeping the originally > empty ones. > > Thoughts? Sounds good to me. I would be willing to work on a new option if needed (to "atone" for changing existing behavior), so you can loop me in if there are any complaints. -- <><