Re: [PATCH 1/2] rebase: check for errors from git-commit

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Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> writes:

>  I've grown used to having 'set -e' at the beginning of my shell
>  scripts.  IMHO it'd be a good idea to start moving towards this
>  eventually (even though shell scripts seem to be getting phased-out
>  somewhat).
>
>  git-rebase.sh |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh
> index 9ad1c44..47c8e8f 100755
> --- a/git-rebase.sh
> +++ b/git-rebase.sh
> @@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ continue_merge () {
>  
>  	if test -n "`git-diff-index HEAD`"
>  	then
> +		git-commit -C "`cat $dotest/current`" || die 'Commit failed'
>  		printf "Committed: %0${prec}d" $msgnum
> -		git-commit -C "`cat $dotest/current`"

Anticipating failure from "git-commit" is the right thing to do,
but this is a "Now what?" situation.  What is the expected
course of action to recover from this for the end user, and how
can we phrase the error message to help that process?

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