From: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> Both Johannes and I assumed (perhaps due to familiarity with rebase) that am --abort would return the user to a clean state. However, since am, unlike rebase, is intended to be used within a dirty working tree, --abort will only clean the files involved in the am operation. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-am.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index 8714dfcb762..0a4a984dfde 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -178,6 +178,8 @@ default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this. --abort:: Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation. + Revert contents of files involved in the am operation to their + pre-am state. --quit:: Abort the patching operation but keep HEAD and the index -- gitgitgadget
