On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:08:50AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
> > Strictly speaking, an empty [rebase -i] todolist should mean to drop all
> > the patches (like a todolist with just one line would mean to drop all
> > the others). But a user never wants to do that (otherwise, "git reset"
> > would be the right command), so "git rebase -i" considers it as a
> > special case.
>
> Actually, it is a design bug, but it was the only sane way I could think
> of aborting the rebase.
>
> Note that there _are_ users who want to do that ("let me see what commits
> I have, ah, oh, okay, I want none of them"). I am one of those.
I regularly mess up the todo file so badly that I don't want to bother
with undo but rather start over from the beginning.
Best,
Gábor
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