# give a hint/solution for "It looks like git-am is in progress. Cannot rebase." 2 messages from 2009-08-10 to 2009-08-10. Participants: Lucian Adrian Grijincu, John Tapsell. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/20520 ## Lucian Adrian Grijincu, 2009-08-10 14:34 Subject: give a hint/solution for "It looks like git-am is in progress. Cannot rebase." Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/acf3f2e60908100734l6388d9a8k90ed835304a69918%40mail.gmail.com ``` 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). -- . ..: Lucian ``` ## John Tapsell, 2009-08-10 15:59 Subject: Re: give a hint/solution for "It looks like git-am is in progress. Cannot rebase." Message-ID: <43d8ce650908100859m50379376y410a67b69244f38a@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/43d8ce650908100859m50379376y410a67b69244f38a%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` 2009/8/10 Lucian Adrian Grijincu : > 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 :-) > 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > ```