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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Steven Walter" <stevenrwalter@gmail.com>
Cc: "Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com>,
	"Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-what: explain what to do next
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 13:24:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3ao31omy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e06498070805271108t66a45abfy9abb5ed065e59e35@mail.gmail.com> (Steven Walter's message of "Tue, 27 May 2008 14:08:35 -0400")

"Steven Walter" <stevenrwalter@gmail.com> writes:

> Surely it has happened to everyone that you start a rebase, walk away
> and then continue hacking and committing with the rebase still in
> progress.  It isn't too bad for an experienced user to recover from
> this state, but prevention is much better than cure.  A simple "git
> what" command that could remind you of what you were doing would be a
> welcome addition, in my mind.

I haven't looked at the patch in question, but I'd agree with the above,
and that is why I use the $PS1 support in bash completion (especially the
resent one can tell between "am" and "rebase", which made it even nicer).

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-27 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-27  8:34 [RFC/PATCH] git-what: explain what to do next Santi Béjar
2008-05-27 10:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-27 12:58   ` Santi Béjar
2008-05-27 13:12     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-27 13:37       ` Santi Béjar
2008-05-27 13:52         ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-05-27 14:21           ` Santi Béjar
2008-05-27 18:08             ` Steven Walter
2008-05-27 20:24               ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-05-27 20:51       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-28  9:12         ` Santi Béjar
2008-05-29  4:39 ` Christian Couder
2008-05-29  5:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-29 14:56     ` Jon Loeliger

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