Completely cancel a rebase

Question

I performed a rebase like this:

git rebase --onto master new_background_processing export_background_processing

That didn\'t do what I wan

Answer 1

You are lucky that you didn't complete the rebase, so you can still do git rebase --abort. If you had completed the rebase (it rewrites history), things would have been much more complex. Consider tagging the tips of branches before doing potentially damaging operations (particularly history rewriting), that way you can rewind if something blows up.