On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 09:40:38AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> From @chucklu:
> 
> > my user case is like this :
> >
> > When I want to cherr-pick commits from A to G (ABCDEFG), image C and E
> > are merge commits.  Then I will get lots of popup like:
> >
> >    The previous cherry-pick is now empty, possibly due to conflict
> >    resolution.
> >    If you wish to commit it anyway, use:
> >
> >        git commit --allow-empty
> >
> >    If you wish to skip this commit, use:
> >
> >        git reset
> >
> >    Then "git cherry-pick --continue" will resume cherry-picking
> >    the remaining commits.
> 
> My quick interpretation of this is that the user actually needs a way to
> skip silently commits which are now empty.

If it's always intended to be used with cherry-pick, shouldn't
cherry-pick learn a --keep-empty (like rebase has)? That would avoid
even stopping for this case in the first place.

-Peff

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