Hi, On Mon, 6 Aug 2018, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 9:20 PM Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > But your suggestion did make me think about what behaviour I would > > like to see, exactly. I like that Git removes commits that no longer > > serve any purpose (because I've included their changes in earlier > > commits). So I would not want to keep commits that become empty during > > the rebase. What I would like to see is that commits that _start out_ > > as empty, are retained. Would such behaviour make sense? Or would that > > be considered surprising behaviour? > > I, personally, have no opinion since I don't use empty commits. > Perhaps someone more experienced and more long-sighted will chime in. I got aware about two weeks ago that my mail provider fails to deliver all the mails that are addressed to me. Two days ago, I managed to get this mail (and the thread) via public-inbox (thanks, Eric!!!). Hence my late reply. Hilco: if you provide a patch to extend the test suite to demonstrate the breakage (via `test_expect_failure`), I promise to try my best to provide a fix on top. Ciao, Johannes
