From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:27:11 GMT
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] rebase: give a better error message for bogus branch
Message-ID: <20110127002711.GB32711@sigill.intra.peff.net>

When you give a non-existent branch to git-rebase, it spits
out the usage. This can be confusing, since you may
understand the usage just fine, but simply have made a
mistake in the branch name.

Before:

  $ git rebase origin bogus
  Usage: git rebase ...

After:

  $ git rebase origin bogus
  fatal: no such branch: bogus
  Usage: git rebase ...

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 git-rebase.sh |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh
index 345b18c..cbb0ea9 100755
--- a/git-rebase.sh
+++ b/git-rebase.sh
@@ -482,6 +482,7 @@ case "$#" in
 	then
 		head_name="detached HEAD"
 	else
+		echo >&2 "fatal: no such branch: $1"
 		usage
 	fi
 	;;
-- 
1.7.4.rc3.5.g8354b