Re: error: could not parse 'Drop' when rebasing

[Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>]

Hi Jarno

On 26/03/2025 10:43, Jarno Suni wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> It appears that the object id for the commit got deleted when the
>> command was changed from "pick" to "reword" and so git does not know
>> which commit this line is referring to. The commit subject is there for
>> the benefit of the user not for git - after all many commits could share
>> the same subject.
> 
> The error appeared first time in the rebase after I changed the command
> from pick to drop (or d for short.) I had never used d  before but I have
> used e many times without an issue. Even the d command worked after I
> edited the commit message title (in new rebase). So I suspect that there
> is something in wrong in parsing d command.

I'm not sure that explains why the commit object id is missing. If you 
are able to reproduce this bug and show the edited todo-list with the 
drop commands and the errors produced by that todo-list that would be 
very helpful. Without that it is hard to tell what's happening here.

Thanks

Phillip