Re: Strange behavior with git rebase (-i)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 2, 2008, 17:08 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802021708030.7372@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20080202162524.GB25945@dervierte>

Hi,

On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Steven Walter wrote:

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> On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 03:42:06PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > I don't believe it.  "git branch" would have shown "* (no branch)" as 
> > current branch, unless the rebase is finalized.
> > 
> > git rebase -i works on a _detached_ HEAD, for two reasons:
> 
> > On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> > > I was using git 1.5.3.2
> 
> Did rebase -i in git 1.5.3.2 use a detached head?  I thought that was
> new in 1.5.4.

rebase -i uses a detached HEAD since it was merged. In 1.5.4, rebase (note the absence of -i) uses a detached HEAD, too.

Ciao, Dscho