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Re: [BUG] Incosistent repository state when trying to rename HEAD in the middle of a rebase

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 2, 2017, 07:51 UTC
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Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> writes:
> I was able to spare some time to dig into this and found a few things.
>
> First, it seems that the issue is more generic and the BUG kicks in
> whenever HEAD is not a symbolic ref.
Interesting.

Shortly we'll be rewinding the tip of 'next', and it is a good opportunity to kick any not-so-well-cooked topic back to 'pu', so let's figure out what is going on after that happens (at which point let's eject the "branch name sanity" topic out of 'next').

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