Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-rebase.txt: clarify that --abort checks out <branch>

From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Jul 6, 2011, 13:25 UTC
Message-ID: <1309958707.10212.6.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20110706025228.GB10015@elie>

On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 21:52 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> Martin von Zweigbergk wrote:
> 
> > That reminds me that <branch> may not have been specified. How about
> > saying things more explicitly like this?
> >
> >   Abort the rebase operation and reset HEAD to the original branch. If
> >   <branch> was provided when the rebase operation was started, then
> >   HEAD will be reset to <branch>. Otherwise HEAD will be reset to
> >   where it was when the rebase operation was started.
> 
> Sounds great to me for what it's worth.  (With the caveat that "git
> rebase --abort" reattaches HEAD in addition to what "git reset --hard"
> would do, but I think it's fine to just leave that implied.)

Agreed, that is better.

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-Drew Northup
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