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 recommit and continue with an empty commit message:

Aborting commit due to empty commit message.
Could not apply XXX... XXX
$ git commit --allow-empty -C $(<"$(git rev-parse --git-dir)/rebase-merge/onto")
$ git rebase --continue