From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

As of 4557f1add261 (rebase--helper: add a builtin helper for interactive
rebases, 2017-02-09), continuing an interactive rebase uses the builtin
sequencer, which spawns `git commit`.

The child may trigger auto-maintenance, which may need to replace files
for which the sequencer still holds resources. See
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/6315: on Windows, this
produces unlink retry prompts that cannot succeed while the sequencer
waits for the child.

Resources such as file handles or memory mappings must be released
before spawning a command that may run auto-maintenance, as established
by 28d04e1ec197 (run-command: offer to close the object store before
running, 2021-09-09).

Release the sequencer's ODB before spawning `git commit`. The regression
test uses the legacy-delete trick introduced by 69ed0e35a754 (mingw:
optionally use legacy (non-POSIX) delete semantics, 2026-05-07) to
trigger the failure on modern Windows.

Assisted-by: GPT-5.6 Sol
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Submitted-As: https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.2198.git.1786388689444.gitgitgadget@gmail.com