I see what you mean now. I guess I did not consider the meaning of that message very closely. On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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?