If git am fails early, before even trying to apply the first patch, it would be great if am did not leave some state that has to be manually cleaned up (git am --abort). Even if I have a small 'AM' marker in my prompt, it is often missed. And why write state files to .git/ at all, if all it did was to tell me that the index is dirty? This fixes an inconvenience, and I don't have to wonder (look up) every time if git am --abort will delete all the WIP I had in the way or not. Ulrik -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html