From: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:10:44 GMT
Subject: Re: rebase --continue confusion
Message-ID: <m3bpbo1f3f.fsf@winooski.ccs.neu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4C01B855.7080409@gmail.com>

Dale Rowley <ddrowley@gmail.com> writes:
>
> OK, so there isn't a bug in git, but since then I've seen co-workers
> stumped by this same problem. So maybe it would help to clarify the
> message? Maybe something like "The index is in the same state as it
> was before the patch was applied - refusing to make an empty
> commit. Did you forget to use 'git add'? Or maybe you should use
> 'git rebase --skip'?"

There are a number of these things that I asked about recently.
Here's another similarly one:

  $ git add foo
  $ git status -s
  M  foo
  $ git commit --amend foo
  # On branch master
  # No changes
  $ git status -s
  M  foo

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