title: Git: Cannot rebase because of uncommitted changes
body: <p>Git won't let me rebase from anywhere.</p>
  <pre><code>Cannot rebase: Your index contains uncommitted changes.
  Please commit or stash them.
  </code></pre>
  <p>Following the instructions from <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/13694625/618450">this answer</a>:</p>
  <pre><code>$ git update-index -q --ignore-submodules --refresh
  $ git diff-files --ignore-submodules
  </code></pre>
  <p>Both do not produce any output but that one does:</p>
  <pre><code>$ git diff-index --cached --ignore-submodules HEAD --
  :100644 000000 cab819f1e5ed6cc7cff374eecae273e1d6ae6a01     0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 D  .idea/codeStyleSettings.xml
  :100644 000000 2953f353d2c65dd62e36926accb7f645a600b7e0 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 D  .idea/dictionaries/roxy.xml
  :100644 000000 0e7ecef362d8a77067edf4bae5972f33185bd986 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 D  .idea/inspectionProfiles/Project_Default.xml
  :100644 000000 3b312839bf2e939fea3ebdef15630a4b33e57caf  0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 D    .idea/inspectionProfiles/profiles_settings.xml
  :100644 000000 e31af55b33d82e28f471a2ba51b63c2a91fa53b7 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 D  .idea/php.xml
  :100644 000000 9c25e8d4f1169b5d3103b14fdb60e7d7c3975b70 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 D  db/sfront.sql
  </code></pre>
  <p>and I can't delete those files:</p>
  <pre><code>$ git rm --cached .idea/php.xml
  fatal: pathspec '.idea/php.xml' did not match any files
  </code></pre>
  <p>Any ideas that can help me?</p>
  <p>EDIT:
  git stash</p>
  <p>Fixed my problem. I'm not sure I understand what happened though. The files that it complain about were supposed to be ignored.</p>