Re: [PATCH] rebase--interactive: don't enforce valid branch

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 15, 2010, 17:14 UTC
Message-ID: <7vbpepse17.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1003150132060.4362@narbuckle.genericorp.net>

Dave Olszewski <cxreg@pobox.com> writes:

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>> Also I did't follow the code, but does it behave sanely when you say
>> "rebase --abort"?
>
> Good question.  It turns out that both rebase and rebase -i will end
> up on the commit specified by <branch>, whether it's a branch or not.
> That might be the expected and desired behavior, though:
>
>   [Starting on branch A]
>   git rebase origin/B B
>   git rebase --abort
>   [HEAD is now a symref to B]
>
>   [Starting on branch A]
>   git rebase origin/B B^0
>   git rebase --abort
>   [HEAD is now detached at B^0]

Yup, that is what I would call "behave sanely".  Thanks for clarification.