# cat: .git/rebase-merge/head-name: No such file or directory

2 messages from 2010-02-02 to 2010-02-02. Participants: Erik Faye-Lund.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/22493

## Erik Faye-Lund, 2010-02-02 19:20

Subject: cat: .git/rebase-merge/head-name: No such file or directory
Message-ID: <40aa078e1002021120u1a692301q1c4f6a952d4df5a3@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/40aa078e1002021120u1a692301q1c4f6a952d4df5a3%40mail.gmail.com

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I just applied an interactive rebase to one of my repos, and got a
pretty confusing error message:

$ git rebase -i HEAD~4
<edit, rebasing ticked forward to the end>
rm: cannot unlink `/c/Users/kusma/Documents/My
Dropbox/src/gb-asm/.git/rebase-merge/done': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove directory `/c/Users/kusma/Documents/My
Dropbox/src/gb-asm/.git/rebase-merge': Directory not empty
cat: .git/rebase-merge/head-name: No such file or directory
$ git diff
cat: .git/rebase-merge/head-name: No such file or directory
$ git status
# On branch asm-test
nothing to commit (working directory clean)
cat: .git/rebase-merge/head-name: No such file or directory
$

Now, I figure that rm failed due to my virus scanner kicking in, so
that's no mystery. And there is a commit in msys AFAIK that makes
unlink retry on failures. So I expect the issue to go away in future
versions. However, I'm not entirely sure what to do to repair my repo,
though.

Any ideas?

-- 
Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund

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## Erik Faye-Lund, 2010-02-02 19:25

Subject: Re: cat: .git/rebase-merge/head-name: No such file or directory
Message-ID: <40aa078e1002021125l5de7dc4fv8eb5d89c9015f26a@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/40aa078e1002021125l5de7dc4fv8eb5d89c9015f26a%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <40aa078e1002021120u1a692301q1c4f6a952d4df5a3@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I just applied an interactive rebase to one of my repos, and got a
> pretty confusing error message:
>
> $ git rebase -i HEAD~4
> <edit, rebasing ticked forward to the end>
> rm: cannot unlink `/c/Users/kusma/Documents/My
> Dropbox/src/gb-asm/.git/rebase-merge/done': Permission denied
> rm: cannot remove directory `/c/Users/kusma/Documents/My
> Dropbox/src/gb-asm/.git/rebase-merge': Directory not empty
> cat: .git/rebase-merge/head-name: No such file or directory
> $ git diff
> cat: .git/rebase-merge/head-name: No such file or directory
> $ git status
> # On branch asm-test
> nothing to commit (working directory clean)
> cat: .git/rebase-merge/head-name: No such file or directory
> $
>
> Now, I figure that rm failed due to my virus scanner kicking in, so
> that's no mystery. And there is a commit in msys AFAIK that makes
> unlink retry on failures. So I expect the issue to go away in future
> versions. However, I'm not entirely sure what to do to repair my repo,
> though.
>

OK, it turns out these "cat: .git/rebase-merge/head-name: No such file
or directory"-errors are caused by the bash-completion that I
foolishly removed in an attempt to reduce noise. "git show-branch"
shows the correct branch for me.

-- 
Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund

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