From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 03:05:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase, cherry-pick, revert: only run from toplevel
Message-ID: <CABPp-BEyach6xTxHduUzBLmh9bKG1aFZkBev4dOwWrw55VvNmQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.1083.git.git.1630379030665.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 8:03 PM Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
<gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
>
> Allowing rebase, cherry-pick and revert to run from subdirectories
> inevitably leads to eventual user confusion.  For example, if they
> are within a directory that was created by one of the patches being
> rebased, then the rebase operation could hit a conflict before the
> directory is restored leading the user to be running from a directory
> that no longer exists.  Similarly with cherry-pick and revert, those
> operations could result in the directory being removed.
>
> Similar to bisect, simply require that these commands be run from the
> toplevel to avoid such problems.

See also <xmqqv93n7q1v.fsf@gitster.g> and the rest of the thread.