Rebasing a git history with empty commit messages

Question

I recently converted an svn repository with git svn. Unfortunately the svn history has a number of empty commit messages. This is a problem when I rebase and

Answer 1

You can use cherry pick:

git checkout -b temp_branch master
git checkout
git cherry-pick --allow-empty-message first_commit_to_include^..my_branch
# delete old my_branch and rename temp_branch to my_branch
git branch -D my_branch
git branch -m my_branch