On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > A rebase conflict resolution that results in emptiness is a > rather rare event (especially because rebase drops upfront the > identical changes from the set of commits to be replayed), but > it does happen. One could argue that "rebase --continue" can > notice that the resolved index is identical to the tree of the > HEAD commit and skip it automatically. > > Given an index that is identical to HEAD, however, it is not > easy to safely determine if that is because the patch did not > apply at all, or the patch was applied with conflicts _and_ the > user decided to make the patch a no-op by resolving. The > automatic droppage of the commit needs to happen only on the > latter and never on the former. Probably some additional clue could be displayed for the user benefit. This might solve the issue nicely. Nicolas - 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