Re: [PATCH] Clarify: rebase abort leaves <branch> checked-out

From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Mar 14, 2011, 11:40 UTC
Message-ID: <1300102832.5129.17.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7vtyf6hkpo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 12:41 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu> writes:
> 
> > -The latter form is just a short-hand of `git checkout topic`
> > -followed by `git rebase master`.
> > +*NOTE:* The latter form is just a short-hand of `git checkout topic`
> > +followed by `git rebase master`. If the rebase is aborted `topic` will 
> > +remain the checked-out branch.
> 
> The behaviour is consistent between the case where "this on that" form
> succeeds and it stops and gets aborted, and I think both are euqally
> noteworthy.  So I'd suggest dropping "if aborted".

So a synthetic look at that might be:

-If the rebase is aborted +When rebase exits

Comments?

I'll see about re-rolling likewise (and on something with a more recent runtime!).

-- 
-Drew Northup
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