How to force abort or kill a Git rebase

Question

A stash got me into a merge with conflicts which got me in a rebase that I cannot abort or continue. Both give me message

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

Is there a way to force a abort, reset? Or should I just start over with a fresh checkout.

I am using Git 2.21.0.

Answer 1

If git status does report a rebase, the git rebase --quit would be the way yo cancel everything.

If not, you can try a git reset --hard (assuming you don't have any work in progress), and see if a git status will report a clean working tree.