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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] Incosistent repository state when trying to rename HEAD in the middle of a rebase
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Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> writes:

> I was able to spare some time to dig into this and found a few things.
>
> First, it seems that the issue is more generic and the BUG kicks in
> whenever HEAD is not a symbolic ref.

Interesting.  

Shortly we'll be rewinding the tip of 'next', and it is a good
opportunity to kick any not-so-well-cooked topic back to 'pu',
so let's figure out what is going on after that happens (at which
point let's eject the "branch name sanity" topic out of 'next').