Hi, after executing the abort commands to remove a just created new topic branch, the .top* files from the previous branch are markes as deleted. To reproduce: $ md g $ cd g $ git --version git version 1.6.1.rc4 $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/bertw/tmp/g/.git/ $ touch file $ git add file $ git commit -m init [master (root-commit)]: created 2155efd: "init" 0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 file $ tg create t/test1 tg: Automatically marking dependency on master tg: Creating t/test1 base from master... Switched to a new branch "t/test1" tg: Topic branch t/test1 set up. Please fill .topmsg now and make initial commit. tg: To abort: git rm -f .top* && git checkout master && tg delete t/test1 $ git commit -m "topic test1" [t/test1]: created 3cb4fbf: "topic test1" 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 .topdeps create mode 100644 .topmsg $ tg create t/test2 tg: Automatically marking dependency on t/test1 tg: Creating t/test2 base from t/test1... Switched to a new branch "t/test2" tg: Topic branch t/test2 set up. Please fill .topmsg now and make initial commit. tg: To abort: git rm -f .top* && git checkout t/test1 && tg delete t/test2 $ git rm -f .top* && git checkout t/test1 && tg delete t/test2 rm '.topdeps' rm '.topmsg' D .topdeps D .topmsg Switched to branch "t/test1" $ git status # On branch t/test1 # Changes to be committed: # (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) # # deleted: .topdeps # deleted: .topmsg # $ Regards, Bert Wesarg -- 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