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[BUG] interactive rebase loses instruction sheet when aborting to avoid overwriting files

Subject: [BUG] interactive rebase loses instruction sheet when aborting to avoid overwriting files

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One message between Dec 19, 2014 and Dec 19, 2014.

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ydirson@free.fr· Dec 19, 2014, 09:42 UTC · lore

[using v2.1.3]

When using "rebase -i" and the working dir contains untracked files that are present in the new base, we correctly get a "would be overwritten by checkout" error, but then the whole rebase interrupts the (long) listing of the incriminated files in the middle of a line and terminates with:

Aborting could not detach HEAD

And consequently we are not rebasing any more, and the precious instruction sheet has been lost.

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