Re: Bug, git rebase -i does not abort correctly

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 26, 2018, 09:24 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8DjXBv_HMbRFPjCLuYt-bk=Ec3VPKorXJ_SBJN8pDu=PQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1516953056.8886.3.camel@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 2:50 PM, Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> wrote:

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> This might seem to be a bug as the comment in "git-rebase-todo" says,
>
>     However, if you remove everything, the rebase will be aborted.
>
> But "man git rebase" clearly says,
>
>     If <branch> is specified, git rebase will perform an automatic "git
>     checkout <branch>" before doing anything else. Otherwise it remains
>     on
>     the current branch.
>
> Junio has previously confirmed that "git rebase [-i] <upstream>
> <branch>" is just a short hand for "git checkout <branch> && git rebase
> [-i] <upstream>".[ref 1] So, it's not surprising that it left HEAD at
> @~3 when you completely removed the contents of git-rebase-todo and
> exited the editor.
>
> Does that help solve your issue?

Sort of. It smells bad design to me when a mistake can easily become a feature. But with your help, I think I should be able to disable this feature on my local build. Thanks.

-- 
Duy