Hi Dscho

On 29/04/2019 17:07, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
Hi Phillip,

On Fri, 26 Apr 2019, Phillip Wood wrote:

From: Phillip Wood <phillip.w...@dunelm.org.uk>

When `rebase -r` finishes it removes any refs under refs/rewritten
that it has created. However if the rebase is aborted these refs are
not removed. This can cause problems for future rebases. For example I
recently wanted to merge a updated version of a topic branch into an
integration branch so ran `rebase -ir` and removed the picks and label
for the topic branch from the todo list so that
     merge -C <old-merge> topic
would pick up the new version of topic. Unfortunately
refs/rewritten/topic already existed from a previous rebase that had
been aborted so the rebase just used the old topic, not the new one.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.w...@dunelm.org.uk>
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Makes a ton of sense, and I feel a bit embarrassed that I forgot about
that item on my TODO list. The patch looks obviously correct!

Thanks, after I sent it I realized that --quit should probably clear refs/rewritten as well, so I'll re-roll with that added. (One could argue that a user might want them after quitting the rebase but there is no way to clean them up safely once we've deleted the state files and I suspect most users would be suprised if they were left laying around)

Best Wishes

Phillip


Thanks,
Dscho

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