On 2/18/2011 9:12 AM, Jeenu V wrote: > I was once in the middle of an interactive rebase, editing a commit > and happened to do a git status. I could see that Git warns in red > color "Not currently on any branch". Similarly, git branch said "* (no > branch)". Having gone this far, wouldn't it be helpful for Git to also > remind "Rebase in progress" or something like that, some where in > these hints? Since git status is meant to display the current status > of the tree, I think it's only apt for it to report so. > > Because, once in a active rebase session, I think there's no command > which tells user that an interactive session is in progress (or is > there?); gitk doesn't help either. If the user happens to take a break > or something, it might be bit perplexing to figure out where he was, > why it was (seeing the working directory headless). > Look in $OFFICIAL-GIT-REPO/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash. Set your 'PS1' as explained there and you will see at your command prompt if you're currently rebasing. HTH, Stefan -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- /dev/random says: URA Redneck if you own a homemade fur coat. -- 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