interrupting "git rebase" (Re: git rebase +)

From

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

Date

Oct 14, 2011, 05:26 UTC

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<20111014052653.GA5052@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net>

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Johannes Sixt wrote:

> Hitting Ctrl-C during git-rebase results undefined behavior. git-rebase is
> a shell script and was never designed to operate in any form of atomicity.
>
> You should have let it run until it stopped.

Wait, really?  That's bad, and unlike most git commands.

> Then you could have said 'git
> rebase --abort' (if it didn't complete) or 'git reset --hard ORIG_HEAD'
> (if it completed).

If interrupting the rebase leaves the repository in a state that

	rm -fr .git/rebase-apply
	git reset --hard <appropriate commit name>

cannot recover from, I'd consider it a serious problem.