[PATCH] rebase -i: more graceful handling of invalid commands
- From
Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
- Date
- Oct 27, 2009, 12:39 UTC
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- <20091027133932.60b996c3@perceptron>
- In-Reply-To
- <40aa078e0910270313j5dc68576v86a3947f0dc7f9f@mail.gmail.com>
Currently, when there is an invalid command, the rest of the line is still treated as if the command had been valid, i.e. rebase -i attempts to produce a patch, using the next argument as a SHA1 name. If there is no next argument or an invalid one, very confusing error messages appear (the line was '.'; path to git-rebase-todo substituted):
Unknown command: . fatal: ambiguous argument 'Please fix this in the file $somefile.': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions fatal: Not a valid object name Please fix this in the file $somefile. fatal: bad revision 'Please fix this in the file $somefile.'
Instead, verify the validity of the remaining line and error out earlier if necessary.
Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs> ---
> I recently came over a not-overly-helpful error in git rebase -i, when > a line got wrapped by the editor so that a part of the commit-message > was interpreted as a command:
Here is a suggested fix.
git-rebase--interactive.sh | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh index a1879e3..fdd8eb6 100755 --- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh +++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh @@ -416,7 +416,12 @@ do_next () { ;; *) warn "Unknown command: $command $sha1 $rest" - die_with_patch $sha1 "Please fix this in the file $TODO." + if git rev-parse --verify -q "$sha" >/dev/null + then + die_with_patch $sha1 "Please fix this in the file $TODO." + else + die "Please fix this in the file $TODO." + fi ;; esac test -s "$TODO" && return
-- 1.6.5.rc1