On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 04:39:56PM -0400, Phil Hord wrote: > 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. Makes sense. I notice there is no test with your patch. It sounds from the description like the operation still may succeed, but we just get cruft on stderr? -Peff -- 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