Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Apr 20, 2007, 05:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20070420053259.GA29069@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vd52054e3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> And I suspect the reason this is confusing to me is not that
> rebase keeps state but that the state is not made more obvious
> to prevent mistakes from happening.  Earlier I mentioned perhaps
> we would want "git, whatnow?" command to remind people what they
> were in the middle of and suggest what the next step would be.
> Or perhaps "git, continue" command that makes the obvious next
> step to happen would be helpful.

You use bash, right? What about teaching your PS1 how to show you if you are in the middle of a rebase? Doesn't it show you the current branch already? ;-)

-- 
Shawn.

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