Re: Git thinks a failing command doesn't exist

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 11, 2010, 20:10 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=78rrF5aK0ku27haLhDp6a=W86EGc_RihdaHVW@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100811194841.GA8689@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 19:48, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 07:45:14PM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> > So either your shell is producing that exit code for a different case,
>> > or git is broken.
>>
>> My shell is Debian /bin/dash 0.5.5.1-6.
>
> Hmm, I can't reproduce here, and I am also using dash as my shell.
>
>> Unfortunately the error with rebase was some one-off thing that I
>> couldn't reproduce. I'm not even sure /what/ I did to make it happen.
>
> OK. The code is _supposed_ to work as you expected, so if it happens
> again, I guess try to reproduce and we'll go from there.

git-rebase must have exited with a code of 127. I tried every exit code from 1 to 255, and 127 is the only one that does this:

$ head -n2 git-rebase #!/bin/sh exit 127

$ ./git rebase --continue git: 'rebase' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

Did you mean this?
        rebase