Re: Bug? git rebase -i --autostash fails to restore working files

From: Remi Galan Alfonso <remi.galan-alfonso@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Jul 28, 2016, 13:02 UTC
Message-ID: <568300231.1133609.1469710974063.JavaMail.zimbra@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <222a3e5b-ff2c-799e-0fcb-cba23815019f@talktalk.net>

Hi Phillip,

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@talktalk.net> writes:

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> When running ‘git rebase -i --autostash’ if the editor fails then the
> rebase fails but stash is not applied so the working files are not
> restored. Running ‘git rebase --abort’ replies that there’s no rebase
> in progress. If you notice what’s happened it’s not a problem if you
> know to do ‘git stash apply <autostash id>’ but it’s confusing as
> normally the stash would be automatically applied. This happened to me
> when I messed up my editor configuration but you can reproduce it with
> 
> $ GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR=false git rebase -i --autostash HEAD^^
> Created autostash: ff960d4
> HEAD is now at f1b8af7 [git] Turn on rebase.missingCommitsCheck

[I'm happy to see rebase.missingCommitsCheck being used.]

> Could not execute editor
> 
> $ git rebase --abort
> No rebase in progress?

I remembered having read something about it recently and a quick search confirmed it. It was corrected in commit 33ba9c6 (29/06/2016, rebase -i: restore autostash on abort) that recently graduated to master (on 19/07/2016 if I read the various "What's cooking" correctly). So you will need to build git from source to have this corrected.

> Best Wishes
> 
> Phillip

Thanks, Rémi