From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:10:08 GMT Subject: Re: [RFE] git rebase doesn't say it failed Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <429AC7A2-511E-496F-9C1C-4627604EBBFB@gmail.com> Hi, On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Christian Holtje wrote: > Hello! > > What happened: > I tried to do a rebase and got a message about files "needs update". > However, it didn't say it did a rebase nor did it say that it failed. It told you that a file is dirty. Git kinda expects you to know that it will not start a rebase on a dirty working directory. So there _was_ an (implicit) message saying that it failed. > Git was unable to rebase due to the files above. Please commit them or move > them out of the way. > Hint: See "git reset --help" for a suggestion about saving work in progress. The same comment I gave last week applies here: people complained that Git was too chatty. I tend to agree, since the important information was lost in the huge amount of text. Now you say we should make it chatty again? Hth, Dscho