Re: A call for better git-rebase messages

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Dec 19, 2006, 10:30 UTC
Message-ID: <7v64c8rxdl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <em8e32$s7b$1@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

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>  $ git rebase abort
>  mkdir: cannot create directory `.dotest': File exists
>
>  It seems that I cannot create a .dotest directory, and I wonder if you
>  are in the middle of patch application or another rebase.  If that is not
>  the case, please rm -fr .dotest and run me again.  I am stopping in case
>  you still have something valuable there.
>
> Why we do not tell to run "git rebase --abort" here? I think the command
> know that it is a middle of git-rebase, not the middle of git-am...

Does it? At least the original author of the command does not know if you did this:

	$ git am mbox
        ... ugh, conflicted.
	$ git rebase master