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 wanted it to, so I performed a reset:

git reset --hard HEAD@{1}

I got my branch back to the state it was, but I received this message when I type git status:

# You are currently rebasing branch 'export_background_processing' on 'e378641'.

How do I cancel that rebase completely? Not sure what that means per se.

Answer

Use git rebase --abort. From the official Linux kernel documentation for git rebase:

git rebase --continue | --skip | --abort | --edit-todo | --quit

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