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give a hint/solution for "It looks like git-am is in progress. Cannot rebase."

Subject: give a hint/solution for "It looks like git-am is in progress. Cannot rebase."

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2 messages between Aug 10, 2009 and Aug 10, 2009.

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Lucian Adrian Grijincu· Aug 10, 2009, 14:34 UTC · lore
Hi,

I ran git-am instead of git-apply on my repo. The git-am complained about the input data, I completely ignored it because I never use git-am (except on typos + tab-completions like today).

Later, after a few commits I wanted to rebase (interactively) my tree
to merge a few commits.
  $ git rebase -i HEAD~4
  It looks like git-am is in progress. Cannot rebase.

Ok, the message is nice, it tells me it can't do something, but I'm stupid enough not to know how to proceed. I see that this message is the same in HEAD (master and next).

It would be nice if git would output one or two hints. For example:
* run "git cancel-a-git-am-in-progress" to cancel a git-am in progress
* run "git commit-the-git-am-in-progress" to commit the git-am in progress

Of course, the commands need to be replaced with some valid git commands, but I don't know which those commands are :)

The message is generated in git-rebase.sh by this code:
  test -f "$GIT_DIR"/rebase-apply/applying &&
  die 'It looks like git-am is in progress. Cannot rebase.'

For now I think I'll `rm -rf .git/rebase-apply` (and hopefully not break anything).

-- 
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..: Lucian
John Tapsell· Aug 10, 2009, 15:59 UTC · re: Lucian Adrian Grijincu · lore

Re: give a hint/solution for "It looks like git-am is in progress. Cannot rebase."

2009/8/10 Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com>:
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> Hi,
>
> I ran git-am instead of git-apply on my repo. The git-am complained
> about the input data, I completely ignored it because I never use
> git-am (except on typos + tab-completions like today).
>
> Later, after a few commits I wanted to rebase (interactively) my tree
> to merge a few commits.
>  $ git rebase -i HEAD~4
>  It looks like git-am is in progress. Cannot rebase.
>
> Ok, the message is nice, it tells me it can't do something, but I'm
> stupid enough not to know how to proceed.
> I see that this message is the same in HEAD (master and next).
>
> It would be nice if git would output one or two hints. For example:
> * run "git cancel-a-git-am-in-progress" to cancel a git-am in progress
> * run "git commit-the-git-am-in-progress" to commit the git-am in progress
+1

git am --help suggests --abort btw. That would be the most obvious guess :-)

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> Of course, the commands need to be replaced with some valid git
> commands, but I don't know which those commands are :)
>
> The message is generated in git-rebase.sh by this code:
>  test -f "$GIT_DIR"/rebase-apply/applying &&
>  die 'It looks like git-am is in progress. Cannot rebase.'
>
> For now I think I'll `rm -rf .git/rebase-apply` (and hopefully not
> break anything).
>
> --
>  .
> ..: Lucian
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