Hello (Dscho), > And moreover I have a more complicated history here with git rebase > failing but I think this here is not my problem :-( I currently have no time to have a deeper look into that either, but here comes the more complicated case, just for the record: ukleinek@zentaur:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ git rev-parse HEAD 57db5b05c27d8c6d66264251ee1124c762aee659 ukleinek@zentaur:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ git rev-parse linus/master 4ee29f6a52158cea526b16a44ae38643946103ec ukleinek@zentaur:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ git status # On branch master nothing to commit (working directory clean) ukleinek@zentaur:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ git rebase -i -p linus/master ... (squash 57db5b0 onto d528ae7) ... (write commit log for d528ae7+57db5b0) ... Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/master. ukleinek@zentaur:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ git status # On branch master # Changes to be committed: # (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) # # modified: Documentation/00-INDEX # new file: Documentation/cpuidle/core.txt # new file: Documentation/cpuidle/driver.txt # new file: Documentation/cpuidle/governor.txt # new file: Documentation/cpuidle/sysfs.txt # modified: MAINTAINERS # modified: arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c # modified: arch/arm/mach-ns9xxx/Kconfig # modified: arch/arm/mach-ns9xxx/Makefile # deleted: arch/arm/mach-ns9xxx/plat-leds-gpio.c # modified: arch/blackfin/kernel/traps.c # modified: arch/cris/arch-v10/lib/memset.c # modified: arch/cris/arch-v32/lib/memset.c # modified: arch/m68knommu/platform/5206/Makefile # modified: arch/m68knommu/platform/5206e/Makefile # modified: arch/m68knommu/platform/520x/Makefile # modified: arch/m68knommu/platform/523x/Makefile # modified: arch/m68knommu/platform/5249/Makefile # modified: arch/m68knommu/platform/5272/Makefile # modified: arch/m68knommu/platform/527x/Makefile # modified: arch/m68knommu/platform/528x/Makefile # modified: arch/m68knommu/platform/5307/Makefile # modified: arch/m68knommu/platform/532x/Makefile # modified: arch/m68knommu/platform/5407/Makefile # modified: arch/m68knommu/platform/coldfire/Makefile # modified: arch/m68knommu/platform/coldfire/entry.S # modified: arch/m68knommu/platform/coldfire/timers.c ... ukleinek@zentaur:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ git show commit 57db5b05c27d8c6d66264251ee1124c762aee659 ... I tracked the problem down to NEWHEAD being wrong. The update-ref before warn "Successfully rebased and updated $HEADNAME." has NEWHEAD=OLDHEAD because .git/.dotest-merge/rewritten/57db5b05c27d8c6d66264251ee1124c762aee659 contains 57db5b05c27d8c6d66264251ee1124c762aee659 itself. If you want to experiment with that, you can get 57db5b05c27d8c6d66264251ee1124c762aee659 from the bundle at http://www.modarm9.com/~ukleinek/57db5b05c2 Best regards Uwe -- Uwe Kleine-König, Software Engineer Digi International GmbH Branch Breisach, Küferstrasse 8, 79206 Breisach, Germany Tax: 315/5781/0242 / VAT: DE153662976 / Reg. Amtsgericht Dortmund HRB 13962 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html