"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> 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.
Makes sense.
>
> 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;
