Re: [PATCH] rebase --abort: cleanup refs/rewritten

> On 29/04/2019 17:07, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 26 Apr 2019, Phillip Wood wrote:
> >
> > > From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
> > >
> > > When `rebase -r` finishes it removes any refs under refs/rewritten
> > > that it has created. However if the rebase is aborted these refs are
> > > not removed. This can cause problems for future rebases. For example I
> > > recently wanted to merge a updated version of a topic branch into an
> > > integration branch so ran `rebase -ir` and removed the picks and label
> > > for the topic branch from the todo list so that
> > >      merge -C <old-merge> topic
> > > would pick up the new version of topic. Unfortunately
> > > refs/rewritten/topic already existed from a previous rebase that had
> > > been aborted so the rebase just used the old topic, not the new one.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
> > > ---
> >
> > Makes a ton of sense, and I feel a bit embarrassed that I forgot about
> > that item on my TODO list. The patch looks obviously correct!
>
> Thanks, after I sent it I realized that --quit should probably clear
> refs/rewritten as well, so I'll re-roll with that added. (One could argue that
> a user might want them after quitting the rebase but there is no way to clean
> them up safely once we've deleted the state files and I suspect most users
> would be suprised if they were left laying around)