Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: restore autostash on abort

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> When we abort an interactive rebase we do so by calling
> `die_abort`, which cleans up after us by removing the rebase
> state directory. If the user has requested to use the autostash
> feature, though, the state directory may also contain a reference
> to the autostash, which will now be deleted.
>
> Fix the issue by trying to re-apply the autostash in `die_abort`.
> This will also handle the case where the autostash does not apply
> cleanly anymore by recording it in a user-visible stash.

I do not do autostash myself, but it is a good thing to try not to
lose information ;-)

> +test_expect_success 'restore autostash on editor failure' '
> +	test_when_finished "git reset --hard" &&
> +	echo uncommited-content >file0 &&
> +	(
> +		test_set_editor "false" &&
> +		test_must_fail git rebase -i --autostash HEAD^
> +	) &&
> +	echo uncommited-content >expected &&

While making sure this case works is crucial, it is not an
interesting failure mode, is it?  Can we also have "does not apply
cleanly anymore" case, too?


> +	test_cmp expected file0
> +'
> +
>  test_done