Subject: Re: Bug in git rebase --continue in v1.8.4

From: Andriy Gapon <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:02:04 +0300

Christoph Mallon said:
> if I run rebase --continue (e.g. after a conflict resolution), then the rebase always ends with this error message:
> 	It seems that there is already a rebase-apply directory, and
> 	I wonder if you are in the middle of another rebase.  If that is the
> 	case, please try
>         	git rebase (--continue | --abort | --skip)
> 	If that is not the case, please
>         	rm -fr "/home/tron/gitRebaseTest/test/.git/rebase-apply"
> 	and run me again.  I am stopping in case you still have something
> 	valuable there.
> 
> This happens on git v1.8.4 on FreeBSD. It is fine with v1.8.3.4.

I observe exactly the same problem.
I also use FreeBSD and the problem started with 1.8.4.

Judging by the lack of followups, could this be a FreeBSD-specific problem?
Any thoughts / suggestions?
Thank you!

> It seems to be caused by
> a1549e1049439386b9fd643fae236ad3ba649650, specifically this hunk:
> 	--- a/git-rebase--am.sh
> 	+++ b/git-rebase--am.sh
> 	 <at>  <at>  -7,12 +7,12  <at>  <at>  case "$action" in
> 	 continue)
> 	  git am --resolved --resolvemsg="$resolvemsg" &&
> 	  move_to_original_branch
> 	- exit
> 	+ return
> 	  ;;
> 	 skip)
> 	  git am --skip --resolvemsg="$resolvemsg" &&

-- 
Andriy Gapon