Subject: Re: [BUG] Incosistent repository state when trying to rename HEAD in the middle of a rebase

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 16:51:18 +0900

Kaartic Sivaraam <[email-masked]> writes:

> I was able to spare some time to dig into this and found a few things.
>
> First, it seems that the issue is more generic and the BUG kicks in
> whenever HEAD is not a symbolic ref.

Interesting.  

Shortly we'll be rewinding the tip of 'next', and it is a good
opportunity to kick any not-so-well-cooked topic back to 'pu',
so let's figure out what is going on after that happens (at which
point let's eject the "branch name sanity" topic out of 'next').