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		happytoexplain 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto Even if `--update-refs` didn't exist, my experience is that git can identify duplicate commits produced by rebase, and knows to skip them when rebasing the same commits to the same place again. Am I imagining that?

adrianN 5 months ago | [–]

That works until you had to fix conflicts during the rebase and the commits are no longer identical.

1718627440 5 months ago | [–]

It definitely fast-forwards unchanged commits.

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