Git - How to fix corrupted interactive rebase

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I managed to create a little mess in my local git repository  I was trying to fix a broken commit by using the following instructions  Before running the  git commit --amend   and after the git rebase --interactive  I decided that my changes were incorrect and so I executed  git reset HEAD --hard   Not a good idea  I tell you   Now the interactive rebase seems to be  stuck   Git shows the current branch as   REBASE-m   Every command  cd     ls  git rebase     inside my repository gives the following error      cat   git rebase-merge head-name  No such file or directory   Here s how git rebase --abort looks like     git rebase --abort cat  c   work project src git  git rebase-merge quiet  No such file or directory cat  c   work project src git  git rebase-merge head-name  No such file or directory cat  c   work project src git  git rebase-merge orig-head  No such file or directory HEAD is now at 4c737fb Revert  Modified file names  rm  cannot remove  c   work project src git  git rebase-merge done   Permission denied rm  cannot remove directory  c   work project src git  git rebase-merge   Directory not empty cat   git rebase-merge head-name  No such file or directory   Here s the result of git rebase --continue     git rebase --continue cat  c   work project src git  git rebase-merge prev head  No such file or directory cat  c   work project src git  git rebase-merge end  No such file or directory cat  c   work project src git  git rebase-merge msgnum  No such file or directory cat  c   work project src git  git rebase-merge onto  No such file or directory cat  c   work project src git  git rebase-merge quiet  No such file or directory prev head must be defined cat   git rebase-merge head-name  No such file or directory   Any ideas  I would like to reset the situation back to the state it was before I started my well-thought rebase operation   Here s how git log --oneline shows the situation   4c737fb Revert  Modified file names  247ac02 Modified file names 33141e6 Message modifications 10a4a04 Modified db script   And this is fine    I m using msysgit v1 7 0 2

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I m using git version 2 19 2 windows 1   the only thing that worked for me was to remove the  git rebase-apply  directory and do a git reset --hard

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I had a similar problem due to a zombie vim exe process   Killing it in Task Manager  followed by a git rebase --abort fixed it

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If you get below state and rebase does not work anymore     git status rebase in progress  onto  null  You are currently rebasing     all conflicts fixed  run  git rebase --continue     Then first run     git rebase -quit   And then restore previous state from reflog     git reflog 97f7c6f  HEAD  origin master  origin HEAD  HEAD  0   pull --rebase  checkout 97f7c6f292d995b2925c2ea036bb4823a856e1aa 4035795  master  HEAD  1   commit  amend   Adding 2nd commit d16be84 HEAD  2   commit  amend   Adding 2nd commit 8577ca8 HEAD  3   commit  Adding 2nd commit 3d2088d HEAD  4   reset  moving to head  52eec4a HEAD  5   commit  Adding initial commit   Using     git checkout HEAD  1   or   git checkout master  or   git checkout 4035795  or

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With SublimeText 3 on Windows  the problem is fixed by just closing the Sublime windows used for interactive commit edition

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In my case eighter git rebase --abort and git rebase --continue was throwing      error  could not read   git rebase-apply head-name   No such file or directory   I managed to fix this issue by manually removing   git rebase-apply directory

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Had same problem in Eclipse  Could not Rebase  abort from Eclipse   Executing git rebase --abort from Git Bash Worked for me

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It looks like Git tried to remove the  git rebase-merge directory but wasn t able to remove it completely  Have you tried copying that folder away  Also copy away the  git rebase-apply folder if that is present

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I got stuck in this  I created the head-name file  and then I ran into another error saying it couldn t find the onto file  so I created that file  Then I got another error saying could not read   git rebase-apply onto   No such file or directory   So I looked at the git documentation for rebasing and found another command   git rebase --quit   This set me back on my branch with no changes  and I could start my rebase over again  good as new

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tried everything else but a reboot  what worked for me is rm -fr  git REBASE HEAD

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Create a file with this name   touch  git rebase-merge head-name   and than use git rebase

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Thanks  Laura Slocum for your answer  I messed things up while rebasing and got a detached HEAD with an   error  could not read orig-head   that prevented me from finishing the rebasing   The detached HEAD seem to contain precisely my correct rebase desired state  so I ran  rebase --quit   and after that I checked out a new temp branch to bind it to the detached head   By comparing it with the branch I wanted to rebase  I can see the new temp branch is exactly in the state I wanted to reach  Thanks

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I have tried all the above steps mentioned but nothing worked for me  Finally  restarting the computer worked for this issue  D

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I am using git in eclipse and I was having the same problem   Eventually I found that the  Rebase      menu entry was temporarily transformed into a sub-menu   Team-  Rebase -  Abort  It worked for me

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In my case it was because I had opened SmartGit s Log in the respective Git project and Total Commander in the respective project directory  When I closed both I was able to rebase without any problem   The more I think about it  the more I suspect Total Commander  i e  Windows having a lock on opened directory the git rebase was trying to something with   Friendly advice  When you try to fix something  always do one change at a time

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On Windows  if you are unwilling or unable to restart the machine see below   Install Process Explorer  https   technet microsoft com en-us sysinternals bb896653 aspx  In Process Explorer  Find   File Handle or DLL      Type in the file name mentioned in the error  for my error it was  git-rebase-todo  but in the question above   done     Process Explorer will highlight the process holding a lock on the file  for me it was  grep     Kill the process and you will be able to abort the git action in the standard way

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In my case after testing all this options and still having issues i tried sudo git rebase --abort and it did the whole thing

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Once you have satisfactorily completed rebasing X number of commits   the last command must be git rebase --continue   That completes the process and exits out of the rebase mode

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I had the same problem  I used process explorer as suggested in other post  i am not able to find that post  and figured out which process has a lock on the file and kill it  then execute the --continue or --abort as per needs

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