Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase--interactive: don't enforce valid branch

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:14:28 -0700

Dave Olszewski <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Also I did't follow the code, but does it behave sanely when you say
>> "rebase --abort"?
>
> Good question.  It turns out that both rebase and rebase -i will end
> up on the commit specified by <branch>, whether it's a branch or not.
> That might be the expected and desired behavior, though:
>
>   [Starting on branch A]
>   git rebase origin/B B
>   git rebase --abort
>   [HEAD is now a symref to B]
>
>   [Starting on branch A]
>   git rebase origin/B B^0
>   git rebase --abort
>   [HEAD is now detached at B^0]

Yup, that is what I would call "behave sanely".  Thanks for clarification.