From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:13:57 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] add test case for rebase of empty commit Message-ID: <7vpq8ctune.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20120703203136.GC10864@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Neil Horman writes: > 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).