# git pull --rebase overwrites/deletes empty commits

1 messages from 2016-01-07 to 2016-01-07. Participants: Bastian Binder.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/41140

## Bastian Binder, 2016-01-07 12:56

Subject: git pull --rebase overwrites/deletes empty commits
Message-ID: <CAL8XmJ2tp3A1NY_5BoNNLr=g+D4KUa7-iZy7_3E8kCUhSjNGAg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello,

I have recently encountered a probable bug in git. We have messages we
want to appear in the log and do an empty commit:

git commit --allow-empty -m "message we want to publish"

After this commit, we do a fetch-rebase in order to pull the
intermediate commits into the local branch before pushing:

git pull --rebase branch origin branch

Problem is: the pull --rebase will delete the empty commit. I see git
rebase has a --keep-empty option. I cannot find such option for the
pull --rebase operation.

Thanks in advance,

Bastian

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