Re: git rebase --continue automatic --skip?

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 01:30:01PM -0700, skillzero@gmail.com wrote:

> Is there a way to make git rebase --continue automatically do a --skip
> if a conflict resolution ends up not needing the patch? Normally, git
> rebase will just silently skip a patch if it's not needed, but if a
> patch results in a conflict and I use git mergetool and end up
> deleting all the changes, git rebase --continue stops and makes me
> explicitly use --skip.

This is something I have often wanted, too. The patch would look
something like this:

diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh
index 7a54bfc..cec15ae 100755
--- a/git-rebase.sh
+++ b/git-rebase.sh
@@ -319,6 +319,11 @@ continue)
 		echo "mark them as resolved using git add"
 		exit 1
 	}
+	if git diff-index --quiet HEAD --; then
+		test -z "$GIT_QUIET" &&
+			echo >&2 "Commit has no changes -- skipping"
+		action=skip
+	fi
 	read_basic_state
 	run_specific_rebase
 	;;

that is based on what is in "next", as there has been a lot of cleanup
in git-rebase recently[1].

I put it in rebase and not straight into "git am", as I'm not sure that
"am" would want to share the same behavior. I'm not sure why we haven't
done this up until now. Maybe there is some corner case I'm not thinking
of where the user would want to do something besides skip when we hit
this situation. I dunno.

Potentially this should also go into the rebase--am specific script. I
haven't really thought it through.

-Peff

[1] I hadn't really been following Martin's rebase cleanup, but it is
    _way_ nicer to look at these days.