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Improved error message from git-rebase

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PATCH 1/1 Improved error message from git-rebase

If the index wasn't clean, git-rebase would simply show the output from git-diff-index with no further comment to the user.

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 git-rebase.sh |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

git-rebase sometimes fails without giving a useful error message. Try this:

  $ touch asdf
  $ git add asdf
  $ git rebase origin/master
  A       asdf
  $ 
git-rebase.sh +2 -1
index 99cedad..9d2f71d 100755
@@ -249,7 +249,8 @@ fi
 git-update-index --refresh || exit
 diff=$(git-diff-index --cached --name-status -r HEAD)
 case "$diff" in
-?*)	echo "$diff"
+?*)	echo "cannot rebase: your index is not up-to-date"
+	echo "$diff"
 	exit 1
 	;;
 esac
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David Kågedal