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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index 1d19542..e1c6f91 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -258,6 +258,24 @@ See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. original branch. The index and working tree are also left unchanged as a result. +--empty={drop,keep,ask}:: + How to handle commits that are not empty to start and are not + clean cherry-picks of any upstream commit, but which become + empty after rebasing (because they contain a subset of already + upstream changes). With drop (the default), commits that + become empty are dropped. With keep, such commits are kept. + With ask (implied by --interactive), the rebase will halt when + an empty commit is applied allowing you to choose whether to + drop it, edit files more, or just commit the empty changes. + Other options, like --exec, will use the default of drop unless + -i/--interactive is explicitly specified. ++ +Note that commits which start empty are kept, and commits which are +clean cherry-picks (as determined by `git log --cherry-mark ...`) are +always dropped. ++ +See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. + --keep-empty:: No-op. Rebasing commits that started empty (had no change relative to their parent) used to fail and this option would @@ -561,6 +579,7 @@ are incompatible with the following options: * --interactive * --exec * --keep-empty + * --empty= * --edit-todo * --root when used in combination with --onto @@ -569,6 +588,7 @@ In addition, the following pairs of options are incompatible: * --preserve-merges and --interactive * --preserve-merges and --signoff * --preserve-merges and --rebase-merges + * --preserve-merges and --empty= * --keep-base and --onto * --keep-base and --root @@ -585,9 +605,12 @@ 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 interactive backend keeps intentionally empty commits. -Unfortunately, it always halts whenever it runs across a commit that -becomes empty, even when the rebase is not explicitly interactive. +The interactive backend keeps intentionally empty commits. Similar to +the am backend, by default the interactive backend drops commits that +become empty unless -i/--interactive is specified (in which case it +stops and asks the user what to do). The interactive backend also has +an --empty={drop,keep,ask} option for changing the behavior of +handling commits that become empty. Directory rename detection ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |