From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx>
The interactive rebase simply complains about an "invalid line" when the
object hash of, say, a `pick` line could not be parsed.
Let's tell the user what happened in a little more detail.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx>
---
sequencer.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
index 95dda23eee..f91062718d 100644
--- a/sequencer.c
+++ b/sequencer.c
@@ -2137,7 +2137,8 @@ static int parse_insn_line(struct repository *r, struct todo_item *item,
item->arg_len = (int)(eol - item->arg);
if (status < 0)
- return -1;
+ return error(_("could not parse '%.*s'"),
+ (int)(end_of_object_name - bol), bol);
item->commit = lookup_commit_reference(r, &commit_oid);
return !item->commit;
--
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