Cameron Steffen <cam.steffen94@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> 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. Then your earlier idea to reuse the same message >> warning: skipped previously applied commit <hash> > > Potentially we could use the very same message. would not work, would it?