Re: aborting rebase -i right at the start, was Re: [BUG] - "git commit --amend" commits, when exiting the editor with no changes written

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> 
> > Strictly speaking, an empty [rebase -i] todolist should mean to drop all 
> > the patches (like a todolist with just one line would mean to drop all 
> > the others). But a user never wants to do that (otherwise, "git reset" 
> > would be the right command), so "git rebase -i" considers it as a 
> > special case.
> 
> Actually, it is a design bug, but it was the only sane way I could think 
> of aborting the rebase.
> 
> Note that there _are_ users who want to do that ("let me see what commits 
> I have, ah, oh, okay, I want none of them"). I am one of those.