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

If there’s an interactive rebase in progress, this will tell you where you are in the process:

$ cat .git/rebase-merge/done 
pick 786139e lrg
edit 668b8a6 ktio
$ 

Right now I’m editing the “ktio” patch in an interactive rebase.

If there’s no rebase going on, it will look like this:

$ cat .git/rebase-merge/done 
cat: .git/rebase-merge/done: No such file or directory
$