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; -- gitgitgadget