From 4ac5356c62d02b118c49cd85f88c7e6f65590400 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:27:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] rebase: give a better error message for bogus branch

When you give a non-existent branch to git-rebase, it spits
out the usage. This can be confusing, since you may
understand the usage just fine, but simply have made a
mistake in the branch name.

Before:

  $ git rebase origin bogus
  Usage: git rebase ...

After:

  $ git rebase origin bogus
  fatal: no such branch: bogus
  Usage: git rebase ...

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 git-rebase.sh | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh
index 1f42fb75e7..26d5197a0f 100755
--- a/git-rebase.sh
+++ b/git-rebase.sh
@@ -491,6 +491,7 @@ case "$#" in
 	then
 		head_name="detached HEAD"
 	else
+		echo >&2 "fatal: no such branch: $1"
 		usage
 	fi
 	;;
-- 
2.11.4.GIT