From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:41:44 GMT
Subject: Re: aborting rebase -i right at the start, was Re: [BUG] - "git commit --amend" commits, when exiting the editor with no changes written
Message-ID: <20100203094144.GM15202@neumann>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1002031006570.3099@intel-tinevez-2-302>

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:08:50AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 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.

I regularly mess up the todo file so badly that I don't want to bother
with undo but rather start over from the beginning.


Best,
Gábor