[PATCH] git-filter-branch.sh: clarify an error message

From: Chris Jones <chris@christopherjones.us>
Date: Jul 4, 2015, 23:39 UTC
Message-ID: <1436053144.3463091.315316457.1BAF8BA7@webmail.messagingengine.com>

Make git filter-branch output a useful error message when a single commit is given instead of a range. Currently, when given a command like git filter-branch --msg-filter 'echo "TEST"' -- abc123, it will give the message "Which ref do you want to rewrite?". Instead, what is needed is a range of commits to rewrite. This makes it give an error message that says "You didn't provide a valid range of commits".

Signed-off-by: Chris W Jones <chris@christopherjones.us>
---
 git-filter-branch.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh
index 5b3f63d..78e7499 100755
--- a/git-filter-branch.sh
+++ b/git-filter-branch.sh
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ git rev-parse --no-flags --revs-only
--symbolic-full-name \
 sed -e '/^^/d' "$tempdir"/raw-heads >"$tempdir"/heads
 
 test -s "$tempdir"/heads ||
-       die "Which ref do you want to rewrite?"
+       die "You didn't provide a valid range of commits."
 
 GIT_INDEX_FILE="$(pwd)/../index"
 export GIT_INDEX_FILE

-- 
1.9.3