On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 10:47 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Now we have the "drop" verb, the latter interpretation becomes > possible without making it impossible for the user to express the > former. and for people that would like to enforce the use of the drop verb there is configuration that prevents deleted lines to "silently" dropping commits since 5a5445d878 (rebase-interactive: warn if commit is dropped with `rebase --edit-todo', 2020-01-28) : rebase.missingCommitsCheck AFAIK the correct "signal" to abort is to instruct your editor to exit with non zero (ex: in vi using <esc>:cq), but agree it could be confusing or "inconsistent" and might be worth adding it a message at the footer Carlo
