From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:13:43 GMT
Subject: Re: renormalize histroy with smudge/clean-filter
Message-ID: <c88b7b54-d032-4d91-95f8-2f139ec45b78@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20250205235931.GB30202@raven.inka.de>

Hi Josef

On 05/02/2025 23:59, Josef Wolf wrote:
> 
>> git rebase --root -x 'git add --renormalize . && git commit --amend --no-edit'
> 
> Unfortunately, this runs the command on every commit and gives a warning when
> a cmmit don't touch a filtered file:
> 
>    $ git rebase --root -x 'git add --renormalize . && git commit --amend --no-edit'
>    [ ... ]
>    No changes
>    You asked to amend the most recent commit, but doing so would make
>    it empty. You can repeat your command with --allow-empty, or you can
>    remove the commit entirely with "git reset HEAD^".
> 
> Is there a way to run the command only when rebase halts?

You could try using "git diff --cached --quiet" to avoid running "git 
commit" if there are no changes.

     git rebase --root -x 'git add --renormalize . && { git diff --quiet 
--cached || git commit --amend --no-edit; }'

Best Wishes

Phillip