Don't know if this has been resolved-by-debate here before, But adding a file via git-add in the middle of an interactive rebase and aborting the rebase deletes the hitherto untracked file. It should not. rm -rfv /tmp/t1 ; mkdir -pv /tmp/t1 cd /tmp/t1 && git-init-db cd /tmp/t1 && touch file1 file2 file3 cd /tmp/t1 && git-add file1 cd /tmp/t1 && git-commit -m "Explet1" file1 cd /tmp/t1 && git-add file2 cd /tmp/t1 && git-commit -m "Explet2" file2 cd /tmp/t1 && git-rebase --abort cd /tmp/t1 && EDITOR="sed -i -e 's/^pick/edit/'" git rebase -i 'HEAD^' cd /tmp/t1 && git-add file3 cd /tmp/t1 && git-status cd /tmp/t1 && git-rebase --abort test -e /tmp/t1/file3 || echo bwaaah Maybe something like this to fix it? diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh index 436b7f5..2702536 100755 --- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh +++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh @@ -749,6 +749,7 @@ first and then run 'git rebase --continue' again." git symbolic-ref HEAD $HEADNAME ;; esac && + git-reset && output git reset --hard $HEAD && rm -rf "$DOTEST" exit -- Madhu -- 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