Attempting to rebase when the HEAD is detached and is already up to date with upstream (so there's nothing to do), the following message is shown Current branch HEAD is up to date. which is clearly wrong as HEAD is not a branch. Handle the special case of HEAD correctly to give a more precise error message. Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@xxxxxxxxx> --- git-rebase.sh | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh index 3f8d99e99..9cce1483a 100755 --- a/git-rebase.sh +++ b/git-rebase.sh @@ -602,11 +602,23 @@ then test -z "$switch_to" || GIT_REFLOG_ACTION="$GIT_REFLOG_ACTION: checkout $switch_to" \ git checkout -q "$switch_to" -- - say "$(eval_gettext "Current branch \$branch_or_commit is up to date.")" + if test "$branch_or_commit" = "HEAD" && + !(git symbolic-ref -q HEAD) + then + say "$(eval_gettext "HEAD is up to date.")" + else + say "$(eval_gettext "Current branch \$branch_or_commit is up to date.")" + fi finish_rebase exit 0 else - say "$(eval_gettext "Current branch \$branch_or_commit is up to date, rebase forced.")" + if test "$branch_or_commit" = "HEAD" && + !(git symbolic-ref -q HEAD) + then + say "$(eval_gettext "HEAD is up to date, rebase forced.")" + else + say "$(eval_gettext "Current branch \$branch_or_commit is up to date, rebase forced.")" + fi fi fi -- 2.15.0.345.gf926f18f3