Re: git rebase stops on empty commits

[Mark Blakeney <markb@berlios.de>]

Because these particular original commits were real commits ported from our
previous archaic system which for technical reasons have lost the actual file
changes (although they are trivial for each of these particular cases). But all
our commit comments are very verbose and valuable, specifically in these cases,
so it would be a shame to lose them from the linear change history.

Anyway, the question of why anybody would want empty commits is beside the main
point. The fact is that git provides this option so my bug sugestion here is
that git rebase does not cater for this existing git commit option very well. My
contention is that "git commit" supports --allow-empty so "git rebase" should as
well.