How to know if there is a git rebase in progress?

Question

When I start a git rebase -i, I can issue commands like git rebase --continue, or git rebase --abort. Those commands only work if a re

Answer 1

You can also check how such detection is done in __git_ps1 function in contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh, which can be used for git-aware bash prompt:

                if [ -f "$g/rebase-merge/interactive" ]; then
                        r="|REBASE-i"
                        b="$(cat "$g/rebase-merge/head-name")"
                elif [ -d "$g/rebase-merge" ]; then
                        r="|REBASE-m"
                        b="$(cat "$g/rebase-merge/head-name")"
                else
                        if [ -d "$g/rebase-apply" ]; then
                                if [ -f "$g/rebase-apply/rebasing" ]; then
                                        r="|REBASE"
                                elif [ -f "$g/rebase-apply/applying" ]; then
                                        r="|AM"
                                else
                                        r="|AM/REBASE"
                                fi
                        fi
                fi