git-am.txt: clarify --abort behavior
Both Johannes and I assumed (perhaps due to familiarity with rebase) that am --abort would return the user to a clean state. However, since am, unlike rebase, is intended to be used within a dirty working tree, --abort will only clean the files involved in the am operation. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Elijah Newren committed
Sep 10, 2021 at 10:31 UTC
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@@ -178,6 +178,8 @@ default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
--abort::
Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation.
+ Revert contents of files involved in the am operation to their
+ pre-am state.
--quit::
Abort the patching operation but keep HEAD and the index