From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx>
When a non-existent branch was specified to be rebased, the complete
usage information is printed after the error message that carries the
relevant piece of information:
$ git rebase master topci
fatal: no such branch: topci
usage: git rebase [-i] [options] [--onto <newbase>] [<upstream>] [<branch>]
or: git rebase [-i] [options] --onto <newbase> --root [<branch>]
or: git-rebase [-i] --continue | --abort | --skip
Available options are
[30 lines of usage stripped]
The error message was introduced recently by 4ac5356c (rebase: give a
better error message for bogus branch, 2011-01-27), and the result was
acceptable because the usage text was just two lines. But 45e2acf3
(rebase: define options in OPTIONS_SPEC, 2011-02-28) made things worse
because the usage text is now 35 lines.
Just drop the usage information because it does not add value to the
error message.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx>
---
Note: git-sh-setup's die() does not print "fatal: ".
git-rebase.sh | 3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh
index d7855ea..4761f28 100755
--- a/git-rebase.sh
+++ b/git-rebase.sh
@@ -441,8 +441,7 @@ case "$#" in
then
head_name="detached HEAD"
else
- echo >&2 "fatal: no such branch: $1"
- usage
+ die "fatal: no such branch: $1"
fi
;;
*)
--
1.7.6.86.gdfda2
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