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| author |  Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> | 2020-04-11 02:44:24 +0000 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-04-11 14:15:49 -0700 |
| commit | 1b5735f75c7fd5a46a86adce35d1ed0c6e00ee0f (patch) | |
| tree | fcec9e9ab8c5e97c2f06ef52525546ba6b1fb2f3 /Documentation | |
| parent | Git 2.26 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-1b5735f75c7fd5a46a86adce35d1ed0c6e00ee0f.tar.xz | |
rebase -i: mark commits that begin empty in todo editor
While many users who intentionally create empty commits do not want them
thrown away by a rebase, there are third-party tools that generate empty
commits that a user might not want. In the past, users have used rebase
to get rid of such commits (a side-effect of the fact that the --apply
backend is not currently capable of keeping them). While such users
could fire up an interactive rebase and just remove the lines
corresponding to empty commits, that might be difficult if the
third-party tool generates many of them. Simplify this task for users
by marking such lines with a suffix of " # empty" in the todo list.
Suggested-by: Sami Boukortt <sami@boukortt.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index f7a6033607..8ab0558aca 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -620,7 +620,8 @@ commits that started empty, though these are rare in practice. It also drops commits that become empty and has no option for controlling this behavior. -The merge backend keeps intentionally empty commits. Similar to the +The merge backend keeps intentionally empty commits (though with -i +they are marked as empty in the todo list editor). Similar to the apply backend, by default the merge backend drops commits that become empty unless -i/--interactive is specified (in which case it stops and asks the user what to do). The merge backend also has an |