Re: git diff-index and both deleted conflict

Dmitry Pavlenko [off-list ref] writes:

that there's "no local changes in the repository (in the working tree and 
index)" so that I could perform "git rebase" there?

There is a code that lets "git rebase" decide if it can run in the
source.  Look for require_clean_work_tree in git-sh-setup.sh