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

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Sergei Organov wrote:
>
>> Yes, and that's the problem. Why 'git --continue' didn't just skip this 
>> patch that *already became no-op* after conflict resolution and forced 
>> me to explicitly use 'git --skip' instead?
>
> Isn't that obvious?  To prevent you from accidentally losing a commit.

In case it is not obvious...

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.