- am-based rebase will drop any "empty" commits, whether the
- commit started empty (had no changes relative to its parent to
- start with) or ended empty (all changes were already applied
- upstream in other commits).
+Empty commits
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The am backend drops any "empty" commits, regardless of whether the
+commit started empty (had no changes relative to its parent to
+start with) or ended empty (all changes were already applied
+upstream in other commits).