There are occasions when you decide to abort an in-progress rebase and
move on to do something else but you forget to do "git rebase --abort"
first. Or the rebase has been in progress for so long you forgot about
it. By the time you realize that (e.g. by starting another rebase)
it's already too late to retrace your steps. The solution is normally
rm -r .git/<some rebase dir>
and continue with your life. But there could be two different
directories for <some rebase dir> (and it obviously requires some
knowledge of how rebase works), and the ".git" part could be much
longer if you are not at top-dir, or in a linked worktree. And
"rm -r" is very dangerous to do in .git, a mistake in there could
destroy object database or other important data.
Provide "git rebase --forget" for this exact use case.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v3 rewrote the desscription of --forget in git-rebase.txt to be more
or less along the same line as --abort. What happens to the index and
worktree is also stated to avoid misunderstanding.
Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 7 ++++++-
contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 4 ++--
git-rebase.sh | 6 +++++-
t/t3407-rebase-abort.sh | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index de222c8..1e16c70 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[<upstream> [<branch>]]
'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>]
--root [<branch>]
-'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort | --edit-todo
+'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort | --forget | --edit-todo
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -252,6 +252,11 @@ leave out at most one of A and B, in which case it defaults to HEAD.
will be reset to where it was when the rebase operation was
started.
+--forget::
+ Abort the rebase operation but HEAD is not reset back to the
+ original branch. The index and working tree are also left
+ unchanged as a result.
+
--keep-empty::
Keep the commits that do not change anything from its
parents in the result.
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index 21016bf..3143cb0 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -1734,10 +1734,10 @@ _git_rebase ()
{
local dir="$(__gitdir)"
if [ -f "$dir"/rebase-merge/interactive ]; then
- __gitcomp "--continue --skip --abort --edit-todo"
+ __gitcomp "--continue --skip --abort --forget --edit-todo"
return
elif [ -d "$dir"/rebase-apply ] || [ -d "$dir"/rebase-merge ]; then
- __gitcomp "--continue --skip --abort"
+ __gitcomp "--continue --skip --abort --forget"
return
fi
__git_complete_strategy && return
diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh
index 04f6e44..de712b7 100755
--- a/git-rebase.sh
+++ b/git-rebase.sh
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ continue! continue
abort! abort and check out the original branch
skip! skip current patch and continue
edit-todo! edit the todo list during an interactive rebase
+forget! abort but keep HEAD where it is
"
. git-sh-setup
set_reflog_action rebase
@@ -241,7 +242,7 @@ do
--verify)
ok_to_skip_pre_rebase=
;;
- --continue|--skip|--abort|--edit-todo)
+ --continue|--skip|--abort|--forget|--edit-todo)
test $total_argc -eq 2 || usage
action=${1##--}
;;
@@ -399,6 +400,9 @@ abort)
finish_rebase
exit
;;
+forget)
+ exec rm -rf "$state_dir"
+ ;;
edit-todo)
run_specific_rebase
;;
diff --git a/t/t3407-rebase-abort.sh b/t/t3407-rebase-abort.sh
index a6a6c40..6bc5e71 100755
--- a/t/t3407-rebase-abort.sh
+++ b/t/t3407-rebase-abort.sh
@@ -99,4 +99,28 @@ testrebase() {
testrebase "" .git/rebase-apply
testrebase " --merge" .git/rebase-merge
+test_expect_success 'rebase --forget' '
+ cd "$work_dir" &&
+ # Clean up the state from the previous one
+ git reset --hard pre-rebase &&
+ test_must_fail git rebase master &&
+ test_path_is_dir .git/rebase-apply &&
+ head_before=$(git rev-parse HEAD) &&
+ git rebase --forget &&
+ test $(git rev-parse HEAD) = $head_before &&
+ test ! -d .git/rebase-apply
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'rebase --merge --forget' '
+ cd "$work_dir" &&
+ # Clean up the state from the previous one
+ git reset --hard pre-rebase &&
+ test_must_fail git rebase --merge master &&
+ test_path_is_dir .git/rebase-merge &&
+ head_before=$(git rev-parse HEAD) &&
+ git rebase --forget &&
+ test $(git rev-parse HEAD) = $head_before &&
+ test ! -d .git/rebase-merge
+'
+
test_done
--
2.8.2.524.g6ff3d78