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Re: "Give me a break"... well, you gave me one

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DDavid <bouncingcats@gmail.com>
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Mar 29, 2019, 23:49 UTC
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On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 at 09:00, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 03:14:11PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> > just wanted to express my gratitude for your idea to introduce the `break`
> > command in `git rebase -i`'s todo list. I use it *all* the time now.
>
> +1. Before that, I was using `x bash`, and ended up doing `git rebase
> --continue` in that shell in many cases, which didn't end up so well
'x bash' will start another shell, that seems an odd thing to do.

I have been using 'x false' to generate an error exit status to interrupt the rebase and drop into the current shell. Then 'git rebase --continue' to resume.

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  1. Johannes SchindelinMar 6, 2019
  2. Mike HommeyMar 6, 2019
  3. DavidMar 29, 2019
  4. Johannes SchindelinApr 1, 2019
  5. Stefan BellerMar 29, 2019
  6. Johannes SchindelinApr 1, 2019

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