From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 02:52:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-rebase.txt: clarify that --abort checks out <branch>
Message-ID: <20110706025228.GB10015@elie>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1107052148370.7799@debian>

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.)  Sorry to
have been slow to respond lately.