On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 8:03 PM Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> > > Allowing rebase, cherry-pick and revert to run from subdirectories > inevitably leads to eventual user confusion. For example, if they > are within a directory that was created by one of the patches being > rebased, then the rebase operation could hit a conflict before the > directory is restored leading the user to be running from a directory > that no longer exists. Similarly with cherry-pick and revert, those > operations could result in the directory being removed. > > Similar to bisect, simply require that these commands be run from the > toplevel to avoid such problems. See also <xmqqv93n7q1v.fsf@gitster.g> and the rest of the thread.
