Question:
I’ve got myself into a muddle via an interactive rebase, and I now wish to abort it. (i.e. go back to the point before I was dropped into interactive rebase mode, in my case via git pull --rebase.) The way to do this seems to be via git rebase --abort, but this doesn’t work:
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$ git rebase --abort error: Ref refs/heads/master is at 55b388c141b1485b1acd9e050dbeb0eb90ef2ee7 but expected b918ac16a33881ce00799bea63d9c23bf7022d67 fatal: Cannot lock the ref 'refs/heads/master'. Could not move back to refs/heads/master |
How can I get out of interactive rebase mode, and clean up all references to it? (git reset --hard succeeds, but doesn’t drop me out of rebase mode.)
Answer:
Try to follow the advice you see on the screen, and first reset your master’s HEAD to the commit it expects.
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git update-ref refs/heads/master b918ac16a33881ce00799bea63d9c23bf7022d67 |
Then, abort the rebase again.