Apologies in advance for the vagueness of this bug report. I was juggling a few patches around in a git repo (happens to be linux but that's probably not particularly relevant). I'd been reverting, rebasing and cherry-picking on the CLI. Then I found I needed one more commit which I located with gitk. Since it was already open I used the cherry-pick option within gitk, there were conflicts and gitk invoked git citool for me. At that point I decided to bail on the cherry-pick and closed citool and gitk and ran git cherry-pick --abort from the command line and that’s where things got weird. The abort put me on a different commit than where I started (which happened to be the commit from a previous am --abort). I'm guessing gitk's cherry-pick doesn't fully record the information in a way that the cli counterpart expects. I'll try and get a reproduction going but in the meantime some info from my terminal history and reflog might help. $ git --version git version 2.15.0 $ cd linux/ linux (edac u+10)$ gitk # not pictured here cherry-picking one commit in gitk and citool running linux (edac *+|CHERRY-PICKING u+10)$ linux (edac *+|CHERRY-PICKING u+10)$ git cherry-pick --abort linux (edac u+13)$ Here's some info from the reflog abridged so gmail doesn't eat it. linux (edac u+13)$ git reflog d2b10042ccaf (HEAD -> edac) HEAD@{0}: reset: moving to d2b10042ccaf 67ebefac4b7e HEAD@{1}: rebase -i (finish): returning to refs/heads/edac ... HEAD@{2} through HEAD@{33} are rebase/commit/am/cherry-pick d2b10042ccaf (HEAD -> edac) HEAD@{34}: am --abort Thanks, Chris