From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 15:56:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] "git rebase": fatal: Not a valid object name: ''
Message-ID: <20140109155620.GH7608@serenity.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20140109153618.GA18975@inner.h.apk.li>

On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 04:36:18PM +0100, Andreas Krey wrote:
> since ad8261d (rebase: use reflog to find common base with upstream)
> a rebase without arguments says "fatal: Not a valid object name: ''",
> caused by trying to determine the fork point with an empty $switch_to.
> 
> I don't really see what the appropriate fix would be. :-(

I think the correct fix is to change the "$switch_to" in the call to
"git merge-base --fork-point" to "${switch_to:-HEAD}", but I'm not at a
machine where I can test that or work up a patch at the moment...