fatal: Could not open file .git/rebase-merge/done for reading: No such file or directory

Question

I was going to do a rebase to delete my last commit but I didn\'t want to finish so I exited. (I realize this probably was not the best way to go about it, but it\'s done) I gue

Answer 1

Stash or commit didn't work for me, I just created the files that git was complaining about until it worked!

$ git rebase --abort
error: could not read '.git/rebase-apply/head-name': No such file or directory

echo "master" > .git/rebase-apply/head-name

$ git rebase --abort
error: could not read '.git/rebase-apply/onto': No such file or directory

$ echo "develop" > .git/rebase-apply/onto

$ git rebase --abort
error: could not read '.git/rebase-apply/head': No such file or directory

$ echo "develop" > .git/rebase-apply/head

After which git rebase --abort worked. The branch names you are putting in those files needs to exists, and in my case I didn't care about my local changes, but obviously be careful with this if you do.