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Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
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On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:08:50AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>=20
> > Strictly speaking, an empty [rebase -i] todolist should mean to dro=
p all=20
> > the patches (like a todolist with just one line would mean to drop =
all=20
> > the others). But a user never wants to do that (otherwise, "git res=
et"=20
> > would be the right command), so "git rebase -i" considers it as a=20
> > special case.
>=20
> Actually, it is a design bug, but it was the only sane way I could th=
ink=20
> of aborting the rebase.
>=20
> Note that there _are_ users who want to do that ("let me see what com=
mits=20
> 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,
G=E1bor