Re: Dangerous "git am --abort" behavior

Linus Torvalds:

I just noticed this, and I wonder if it has bitten me before without
me noticing: "git am --abort" can be really dangerous.

Indeed, I have been bitten by that several times, having worked heavily on 
applying patches at $dayjob for a while now. I have taken to habit to always 
do the same "rm -rf .git/rebase-apply" that you mention before doing anything 
involving am or rebase...

Or maybe we could just introduce a new "git am --clean" that just flushes 
any old pending state (ie does that "clean_abort" thing, which is 
basically just the "rm -rf" I've done by hand).

That would be very helpful, as manually doing a "rm -rf" inside the .git 
directory does make me nervous each time I do it...

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