Re: Strange behavior with git rebase (-i)

Hi,

On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Steven Walter wrote:

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 03:42:06PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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I don't believe it.  "git branch" would have shown "* (no branch)" as 
current branch, unless the rebase is finalized.

git rebase -i works on a _detached_ HEAD, for two reasons:

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On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:

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I was using git 1.5.3.2

Did rebase -i in git 1.5.3.2 use a detached head?  I thought that was
new in 1.5.4.

rebase -i uses a detached HEAD since it was merged.  In 1.5.4, rebase 
(note the absence of -i) uses a detached HEAD, too.

Ciao,
Dscho