Git rebase interactive drop vs deleting the commit line

Question

What is the difference from drop in the Git interactive rebase and just deleting the line of the commit?

Answer 1

Marking a commit as drop is the same as deleting the line.

The commit will be dropped/ignored.

See when you scroll down:

If you remove a line here THAT COMMIT WILL BE LOST.

The drop command was added in 2.6.0-rc1:

"git rebase -i" learned "drop commit-object-name subject" command as another way to skip replaying of a commit.