From: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> While many users who intentionally create empty commits do not want them thrown away by a rebase, there are third-party tools that generate empty commits that a user might not want. In the past, users have used rebase to get rid of such commits (a side-effect of the fact that the --apply backend is not currently capable of keeping them). While such users could fire up an interactive rebase and just remove the lines corresponding to empty commits, that might be difficult if the third-party tool generates many of them. Simplify this task for users by marking such lines with a suffix of " # empty" in the todo list. Suggested-by: Sami Boukortt <sami@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 3 ++- sequencer.c | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index f7a6033607f..8ab0558aca2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -620,7 +620,8 @@ commits that started empty, though these are rare in practice. It also drops commits that become empty and has no option for controlling this behavior. -The merge backend keeps intentionally empty commits. Similar to the +The merge backend keeps intentionally empty commits (though with -i +they are marked as empty in the todo list editor). Similar to the apply backend, by default the merge backend drops commits that become empty unless -i/--interactive is specified (in which case it stops and asks the user what to do). The merge backend also has an diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c index e528225e787..ce9fd27a878 100644 --- a/sequencer.c +++ b/sequencer.c @@ -4656,6 +4656,9 @@ static int make_script_with_merges(struct pretty_print_context *pp, strbuf_addf(&buf, "%s %s %s", cmd_pick, oid_to_hex(&commit->object.oid), oneline.buf); + if (is_empty) + strbuf_addf(&buf, " %c empty", + comment_line_char); FLEX_ALLOC_STR(entry, string, buf.buf); oidcpy(&entry->entry.oid, &commit->object.oid); @@ -4861,6 +4864,8 @@ int sequencer_make_script(struct repository *r, struct strbuf *out, int argc, strbuf_addf(out, "%s %s ", insn, oid_to_hex(&commit->object.oid)); pretty_print_commit(&pp, commit, out); + if (is_empty) + strbuf_addf(out, " %c empty", comment_line_char); strbuf_addch(out, '\n'); } return 0; -- gitgitgadget
