From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 01:14:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] sequencer: improve error message when an OID could not be parsed
Message-ID: <xmqqef7acl5c.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <d8c4a3dde5bed492bcdb6399fd8a73ebf4798320.1552472189.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
writes:

> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
>
> The interactive rebase simply complains about an "invalid line" when the
> object hash of, say, a `pick` line could not be parsed.
>
> Let's tell the user what happened in a little more detail.

Makes sense.

>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
>  sequencer.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
> index 95dda23eee..f91062718d 100644
> --- a/sequencer.c
> +++ b/sequencer.c
> @@ -2137,7 +2137,8 @@ static int parse_insn_line(struct repository *r, struct todo_item *item,
>  	item->arg_len = (int)(eol - item->arg);
>  
>  	if (status < 0)
> -		return -1;
> +		return error(_("could not parse '%.*s'"),
> +			     (int)(end_of_object_name - bol), bol);
>  
>  	item->commit = lookup_commit_reference(r, &commit_oid);
>  	return !item->commit;