From: ydirson@free.fr Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:42:55 GMT Subject: [BUG] interactive rebase loses instruction sheet when aborting to avoid overwriting files Message-ID: <1075489045.367270447.1418982175581.JavaMail.root@zimbra39-e7.priv.proxad.net> In-Reply-To: <1009315412.367253372.1418981868176.JavaMail.root@zimbra39-e7.priv.proxad.net> [using v2.1.3] When using "rebase -i" and the working dir contains untracked files that are present in the new base, we correctly get a "would be overwritten by checkout" error, but then the whole rebase interrupts the (long) listing of the incriminated files in the middle of a line and terminates with: Aborting could not detach HEAD And consequently we are not rebasing any more, and the precious instruction sheet has been lost.