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

1 messages from 2014-12-19 to 2014-12-19. Participants: ydirson@free.fr.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/38201

## ydirson@free.fr, 2014-12-19 09:42

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