Git merge conflict markers are missing whilst retrying an aborted rebase?

Question

I was half way through re-basing my branch git pull --rebase origin master. During the rebase I fixed a couple of merge conflicts, added them git add FILE, git rebase --continue.

However I decided to start again as I was not happy with my progress. I used git rebase --abort to end the rebase.

When I now do git pull --rebase origin master I notice that all the merge conflict markers have disappeared and I think the resolutions to the conflicts in my first attempt have remained.

Am I correct in thinking when I start the rebase again I should see the same merge conflicts I saw when i first started the rebase? If so how do I get back to this state?

P.S

I am using Pycharm, could Pycharm be being too helpful?

UPDATE: I checked this with atom and VIM and its the same issue so it's not an IDE/editor thing.

Answer 1

With the help of @filbranden I was able to resolve this:

1. git pull --rebase origin master
2. git rerere forget filepath

   Updated preimage for 'filepath'`
   Forgot resolution for 'filepath`
   

3. git rebase --abort

This cleared all the saved conflict resolutions I had already done. When I tried git pull --rebase origin master again I was back at the start of rebase which is what I wanted.