From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:27:11 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: rebase: give a better error message for bogus branch
X-Git-Tag: v1.7.4~2^2~3
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4ac5356c;p=git.git

rebase: give a better error message for bogus branch

When you give a non-existent branch to git-rebase, it spits
out the usage. This can be confusing, since you may
understand the usage just fine, but simply have made a
mistake in the branch name.

Before:

  $ git rebase origin bogus
  Usage: git rebase ...

After:

  $ git rebase origin bogus
  fatal: no such branch: bogus
  Usage: git rebase ...

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---

diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh
index 1f42fb75e..26d5197a0 100755
--- a/git-rebase.sh
+++ b/git-rebase.sh
@@ -491,6 +491,7 @@ case "$#" in
 	then
 		head_name="detached HEAD"
 	else
+		echo >&2 "fatal: no such branch: $1"
 		usage
 	fi
 	;;