Subject: Re: sporadic git failures on interactive rebase

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 09:12:46 -0800

Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:

> What happens if we rebase with it?
>
>   $ git checkout 01319837
>   $ git rebase -i HEAD^
>
> will yield a todo file with the 8-character unambiguous abbreviation.
>
> So I guess all is working as intended there. Perhaps you really were
> just very unlucky and an earlier step of the rebase created a
> conflicting sha1.

That would mean 75c69766 (rebase -i: fix short SHA-1 collision,
2013-08-23) did not fix what it intended to fix, no?  Is the symptom
coming from pre-1.8.4.2 version of Git?