From: Adam Monsen <haircut@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:35:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Dangerous "git am --abort" behavior
Message-ID: <loom.20101220T203122-271@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinP4SArMkjvTXOEG=tf=8EcEdP9fPAB7F=iitSc@mail.gmail.com>

Linus Torvalds writes:
> What happened today was that I had been doing a pull or two, and then
> applied an emailed patch with "git am" as usual. But as sometimes
> happens, I actually had a previous "git am" that had failed - in fact,
> it was the same patch that I applied today that had had an earlier
> version that no longer applied.

It would be helpful if "git status" mentioned if a rebase or am operation is in 
progress... this might have helped you avoid the situation described.