Actually it's the same on all operating systems. I just forgot to add a new base commit in main in the reproduction scenario - there was nothing to rebase... Here is the correct scenario along with the output. + git init -b main repo Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/ted/workspace/git-abort-bug/repo/.git/ + cd repo + git commit -m base --allow-empty [main (root-commit) 3299694] base + git checkout -b feat Switched to a new branch 'feat' + echo feat >readme.txt + git add readme.txt + git commit -m txt=feat [feat c9dc9b4] txt=feat 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 readme.txt + git checkout main Switched to branch 'main' + git commit -m new-base --allow-empty [main c5c292c] new-base + echo precious > readme.txt + git rebase main feat error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge: readme.txt Please move or remove them before you merge. Aborting hint: Could not execute the todo command hint: hint: pick c9dc9b4d5aca461f1a1bedd3b99b5c8533d5ef10 txt=feat hint: hint: It has been rescheduled; To edit the command before continuing, please hint: edit the todo list first: hint: hint: git rebase --edit-todo hint: git rebase --continue Could not apply c9dc9b4... txt=feat + cat readme.txt precious + git rebase --abort + cat readme.txt feat -Fedor On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 12:24 PM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 12:03:49PM +0200, Fedor Biryukov wrote: > > > Here's the output from Windows, where everything works as expected. > > [...] > > PS> git rebase main feat > > error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten > > by checkout: > > readme.txt > > Please move or remove them before you switch branches. > > Aborting > > error: could not detach HEAD > > Interesting that it behaves differently than the mac and linux versions. > There are some changes between Git for Windows and regular upstream Git, > but looking over the diff between the v2.33.0 releases, I don't see > anything that might cause this discrepancy. > > If the problem used to occur on v2.31 and now doesn't, it might be > interesting to bisect it. > > -Peff
