# [PATCH] Improved error message from git-rebase

1 messages from 2007-01-31 to 2007-01-31. Participants: =?utf-8?q?David_K=C3=A5gedal?=.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/6596

## =?utf-8?q?David_K=C3=A5gedal?=, 2007-01-31 16:12

Subject: [PATCH] Improved error message from git-rebase
Message-ID: <873b5r2mya.fsf@morpheus.local>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/873b5r2mya.fsf%40morpheus.local

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If the index wasn't clean, git-rebase would simply show the output from
git-diff-index with no further comment to the user.
---
 git-rebase.sh |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

git-rebase sometimes fails without giving a useful error message.  Try
this:

  $ touch asdf
  $ git add asdf
  $ git rebase origin/master
  A       asdf
  $ 

diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh
index 99cedad..9d2f71d 100755
--- a/git-rebase.sh
+++ b/git-rebase.sh
@@ -249,7 +249,8 @@ fi
 git-update-index --refresh || exit
 diff=$(git-diff-index --cached --name-status -r HEAD)
 case "$diff" in
-?*)	echo "$diff"
+?*)	echo "cannot rebase: your index is not up-to-date"
+	echo "$diff"
 	exit 1
 	;;
 esac
-- 
1.5.0.rc2.86.gf4f4f-dirty


-- 
David Kågedal

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