> But only if we can positively tell the reason why there is no change relative to the parent commit _is_ because the commit we are currently picking has already been applied, that is. I thought we merely would need to see that there are no staged changes to be committed, and there is a currently-picking commit that will now be skipped? I don't need to know whether the commit was already applied. I just want to know that the commit in the rebase plan is not being committed. On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Cameron Steffen <cam.steffen94@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > There is already a message that prints in the case where a commit is > > automatically skipped if the changes are already applied. > > > >> warning: skipped previously applied commit <hash> > > > > Potentially we could use the very same message. > > Yes, that sounds like going in the right direction. > > But only if we can positively tell the reason why there is no change > relative to the parent commit _is_ because the commit we are > currently picking has already been applied, that is. > > I am not sure how you determine that, especially after giving > control back the end user upon conflict. > > Thanks.