On January 4, 2016 10:00:26 PM CST, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote:

>Or do you mean commits that, when applied, we find turn out to have
>empty changes (e.g., because we have a set of commits that have
>different patch-ids, but do roughly the same thing)? I don't think you
>can find that with a straight end-to-end diff. You have try to apply
>and
>then look at the result. I think we already catch that case (see
>--allow-empty), though I think the only options are "preserve" or
>"abort", not "silently skip" (and it sounds like the latter is what you
>would want).

This.  I see where --allow-empty is handled in prepare_to_commit but it is not 
so easy to skip the commit at that point due to state changes.  I was trying to 
avoid going into commit at all by determining ahead of time whether the commit 
would become empty.  Any ideas?

David
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