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Re: [RFC PATCH] am: do not do any reset on --abort

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 25, 2009, 16:02 UTC
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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 02:17:48PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> I wonder why we have this problem (and do something about it) with git-am,
> but not with git-rebase. Is it perhaps that the usual case were people
> were bitten by the old behavior is:

I don't know. I had assumed a safety valve we put in git-am might need to be matched in rebase. But I don't recall whether I have screwed myself in the same way with rebase. Perhaps because rebase happens on a detached HEAD, I tend to notice sooner that something is not right.

-Peff
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Message 12 of 14 in “Bug: 'git am --abort' can silently reset the wrong branch”
  1. Eduardo HabkostMay 6, 2009
  2. Jeff KingMay 8, 2009
  3. Sverre RabbelierMay 8, 2009
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 8, 2009
  5. Jeff KingMay 8, 2009
  6. am: do not do any reset on --abortJeff King, May 25, 2009
  7. Johannes SchindelinMay 25, 2009
  8. Jeff KingMay 25, 2009
  9. Johannes SixtMay 25, 2009
  10. Avery PennarunMay 25, 2009
  11. Jeff KingMay 25, 2009
  12. Jeff KingMay 25, 2009
  13. Avery PennarunMay 25, 2009
  14. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2009

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