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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Dave Olszewski <cxreg@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase--interactive: don't enforce valid branch
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:14:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbpepse17.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.DEB.2.00.1003150132060.4362@narbuckle.genericorp.net

Dave Olszewski <cxreg@pobox.com> writes:

>> Also I did't follow the code, but does it behave sanely when you say
>> "rebase --abort"?
>
> Good question.  It turns out that both rebase and rebase -i will end
> up on the commit specified by <branch>, whether it's a branch or not.
> That might be the expected and desired behavior, though:
>
>   [Starting on branch A]
>   git rebase origin/B B
>   git rebase --abort
>   [HEAD is now a symref to B]
>
>   [Starting on branch A]
>   git rebase origin/B B^0
>   git rebase --abort
>   [HEAD is now detached at B^0]

Yup, that is what I would call "behave sanely".  Thanks for clarification.

      reply	other threads:[~2010-03-15 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-15  4:48 [PATCH] rebase--interactive: don't enforce valid branch Dave Olszewski
2010-03-15  5:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-15  5:28   ` Dave Olszewski
2010-03-15  5:42     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-15  5:46       ` Dave Olszewski
2010-03-15  6:14       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-15  8:41         ` Dave Olszewski
2010-03-15 17:14           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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