Re: Dangerous "git am --abort" behavior

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On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 19:35 +0000, Adam Monsen wrote:
> Linus Torvalds writes:
> > What happened today was that I had been doing a pull or two, and then
> > applied an emailed patch with "git am" as usual. But as sometimes
> > happens, I actually had a previous "git am" that had failed - in fact,
> > it was the same patch that I applied today that had had an earlier
> > version that no longer applied.
> 
> It would be helpful if "git status" mentioned if a rebase or am operation is in 
> progress... this might have helped you avoid the situation described.

Adam,
Please don't cull the CC list...

In any case, are there any other mult-part operations for which we might
want to report "In Progress" in the "git status" output? How do we best
harvest and present this information to the user? This sounds like a
more general-purpose project than Linus' original scope.

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