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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Strange behavior with git rebase (-i)
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 17:08:34 +0000 (GMT)
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To: Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail.com>
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Hi,

On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Steven Walter wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 03:42:06PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > I don't believe it.  "git branch" would have shown "* (no branch)" as 
> > current branch, unless the rebase is finalized.
> > 
> > git rebase -i works on a _detached_ HEAD, for two reasons:
> 
> > On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> > > I was using git 1.5.3.2
> 
> Did rebase -i in git 1.5.3.2 use a detached head?  I thought that was
> new in 1.5.4.

rebase -i uses a detached HEAD since it was merged.  In 1.5.4, rebase 
(note the absence of -i) uses a detached HEAD, too.

Ciao,
Dscho