From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
To: Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] "git rebase": fatal: Not a valid object name: ''
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:56:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140109155620.GH7608@serenity.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140109153618.GA18975@inner.h.apk.li>
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 04:36:18PM +0100, Andreas Krey wrote:
> since ad8261d (rebase: use reflog to find common base with upstream)
> a rebase without arguments says "fatal: Not a valid object name: ''",
> caused by trying to determine the fork point with an empty $switch_to.
>
> I don't really see what the appropriate fix would be. :-(
I think the correct fix is to change the "$switch_to" in the call to
"git merge-base --fork-point" to "${switch_to:-HEAD}", but I'm not at a
machine where I can test that or work up a patch at the moment...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-09 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-09 15:05 [BUG] git symbolic-ref does not recognize @ as the shortcut for HEAD Mathieu Lemoine
2014-01-09 15:36 ` [BUG] "git rebase": fatal: Not a valid object name: '' Andreas Krey
2014-01-09 15:56 ` John Keeping [this message]
2014-01-09 16:06 ` Andreas Krey
2014-01-09 19:47 ` [PATCH] rebase: fix fork-point with zero arguments John Keeping
2014-01-15 11:26 ` [BUG] git symbolic-ref does not recognize @ as the shortcut for HEAD Duy Nguyen
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