From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira.uka.de>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>,
kusmabite@gmail.com, Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>,
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>,
Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: aborting rebase -i right at the start, was Re: [BUG] - "git commit --amend" commits, when exiting the editor with no changes written
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:41:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100203094144.GM15202@neumann> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1002031006570.3099@intel-tinevez-2-302>
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:08:50AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
> > Strictly speaking, an empty [rebase -i] todolist should mean to drop all
> > the patches (like a todolist with just one line would mean to drop all
> > the others). But a user never wants to do that (otherwise, "git reset"
> > would be the right command), so "git rebase -i" considers it as a
> > special case.
>
> Actually, it is a design bug, but it was the only sane way I could think
> of aborting the rebase.
>
> Note that there _are_ users who want to do that ("let me see what commits
> I have, ah, oh, okay, I want none of them"). I am one of those.
I regularly mess up the todo file so badly that I don't want to bother
with undo but rather start over from the beginning.
Best,
Gábor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-03 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-02 20:07 [BUG] - "git commit --amend" commits, when exiting the editor with no changes written Eugene Sajine
2010-02-02 20:14 ` Jacob Helwig
2010-02-02 20:27 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-02 20:47 ` Eugene Sajine
2010-02-02 20:58 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2010-02-02 21:56 ` Eugene Sajine
2010-02-02 22:03 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-02-02 22:06 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2010-02-02 22:31 ` Eugene Sajine
2010-02-02 22:35 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-02 23:02 ` Eugene Sajine
2010-02-02 23:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-02 23:27 ` Eugene Sajine
2010-02-02 23:40 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-03 6:15 ` Larry D'Anna
2010-02-03 9:31 ` Jeff King
2010-02-03 10:15 ` Jeff King
2010-02-03 18:19 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-02 23:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-02 23:34 ` Eugene Sajine
2010-02-02 23:40 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-02-02 23:48 ` Eugene Sajine
2010-02-03 0:16 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-02-03 0:55 ` Eugene Sajine
2010-02-03 1:59 ` SZEDER Gábor
2010-02-03 7:34 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-02-03 9:08 ` aborting rebase -i right at the start, was " Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-03 9:41 ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2010-02-03 16:02 ` Eugene Sajine
2010-02-03 7:31 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-02-03 15:45 ` Eugene Sajine
2010-02-03 17:51 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-03 17:53 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-03 18:21 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2010-02-03 18:49 ` Eugene Sajine
2010-02-03 18:57 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-03 19:27 ` Eugene Sajine
2010-02-03 19:54 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-03 18:47 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-02-02 23:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-03 0:09 ` Eugene Sajine
2010-02-03 9:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-03 9:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-02-02 23:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-02 21:18 ` Avery Pennarun
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