It might be an unusual workflow, however it leads to a bug: git checkout feature_branch git rebase master # a couple of conflicts occur, which I don’t want to fix. there is an updated version on origin # so I’d like to go with that one git add . git stash git checkout master git branch -D feature_branch git pull git checkout feature_branch git status # On branch feature_branch # You are currently rebasing branch ‘feature_branch' on '195269d'. # (all conflicts fixed: run "git rebase --continue") # nothing to commit, working directory clean # It still thinks that I’m rebasing the branch, so let’s try: git rebase —abort # On branch feature_branch # Your branch and ‘origin/feature_branch' have diverged, # and have 104 and 77 different commits each, respectively. # (use "git pull" to merge the remote branch into yours) # nothing to commit, working directory clean I’m aware that I should have aborted the rebase and then fetch the remote branch. However, I still think that when I delete a local branch, it should also abort the rebase that is attached to it. I hope you find that useful. If it makes sense, I would be happy writing a patch for it :) Cheers, Robert-- 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