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Re: [PATCH] add test case for rebase of empty commit

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 3, 2012, 21:13 UTC
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Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> writes:
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> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 12:00:27PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> The changelog might be similar or textually identical, but it is
>> entirely a different matter if it makes sense taken out of the
>> context (i.e. cherry-picked).  So I would personally do not bother
>> "filtering" about them too much---if you ask for empties, you will
>> get all empties.
>> 
> Ok, copy that.

That was somewhat unexpected, though ;-) It was 30% tongue-in-cheek comment. People who want to keep the empty commits in the history may want some filtering. As I am not among them, I do not think of anything useful (other than "filter all empty ones away", that is).

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  1. add test case for rebase of empty commitMartin von Zweigbergk, Jun 27, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2012
  3. Neil HormanJun 28, 2012
  4. Neil HormanJul 3, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 3, 2012
  6. Neil HormanJul 3, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 3, 2012
  8. Neil HormanJul 3, 2012

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