git pull --rebase does some clever tricks to find the base for $upstream , but it forgets that we may not have any branch at all. When this happens, git merge-base reports its "usage" help in the middle of an otherwise successful rebase operation, because git-merge is called with one too few parameters. Since we do not need the merge-base trick in the case of a detached HEAD, detect this condition and bypass the clever trick and the usage noise. Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <hordp@xxxxxxxxx> --- git-pull.sh | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/git-pull.sh b/git-pull.sh index 2a10047..266e682 100755 --- a/git-pull.sh +++ b/git-pull.sh @@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ test true = "$rebase" && { require_clean_work_tree "pull with rebase" "Please commit or stash them." fi oldremoteref= && + test -n "$curr_branch" && . git-parse-remote && remoteref="$(get_remote_merge_branch "$@" 2>/dev/null)" && oldremoteref="$(git rev-parse -q --verify "$remoteref")" && -- 1.8.0.2.gc921d59.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html