Re: Newbie: report of first experience with git-rebase.

> 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.