Re: [PATCH 7/7] rebase: implement --[no-]autostash and rebase.autostash

Phil Hord [off-list ref] writes:

Because I am in a git-rebase which has apparently failed, I would
expect 'git rebase --abort' would save me here.  

More generally, if I "git rebase --abort" in the middle of a rebase (not
necessarily at the end), I'd expect the stash to be restored. Right now,
if I read correctly, "git rebase --abort" would discard the stashed
changes without giving me the sha1 I'd need to use to recover it :-(.

Recovering the stash should be doable with stg like

--- a/git-rebase.sh
+++ b/git-rebase.sh

@@ -341,6 +341,11 @@ abort)
                ;;
        esac
        output git reset --hard $orig_head
+       if test -f "$state_dir/autostash"
+       then
+           stash_sha1=$(cat "$state_dir/autostash")
+           git stash apply $stash_sha1
+       fi
        rm -r "$state_dir"
        exit
        ;;

the "stash apply" should succeed without conflict by construction
because the stash is applied on the commit it was created.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/