Re: [PATCH] rebase -i continue: Don't skip submodule only commits

> When git-rebase--interactive stops due to a conflict and the only change
> to be committed is in a submodule, the test for whether there is
> anything to be committed ignores the staged submodule change.  This
> leads rebase to skip creating the commit for the change.
>
> While unstaged submodule changes should be ignored to avoid needing to
> update submodules during a rebase, it is safe to remove the
> --ignore-submodules option to diff-index because --cached ensures that
> it is only checking the index.  This was discussed in [1] and a test is
> included to ensure that unstaged changes are still ignored correctly.
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/188713
>
> Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
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