From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 20:24:37 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-what: explain what to do next Message-ID: <7v3ao31omy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: "Steven Walter" writes: > Surely it has happened to everyone that you start a rebase, walk away > and then continue hacking and committing with the rebase still in > progress. It isn't too bad for an experienced user to recover from > this state, but prevention is much better than cure. A simple "git > what" command that could remind you of what you were doing would be a > welcome addition, in my mind. I haven't looked at the patch in question, but I'd agree with the above, and that is why I use the $PS1 support in bash completion (especially the resent one can tell between "am" and "rebase", which made it even nicer).