rebase: improve error messages about dirty state If you have unstaged changes in your working tree and try to rebase, you will get the cryptic "foo: needs update" message, but nothing else. If you have staged changes, you get "your index is not up-to-date". Let's improve this situation in two ways: - for unstaged changes, let's also tell them we are canceling the rebase, and why (in addition to the "needs update" lines) - for the staged changes case, let's use language that is a little more clear to the user: their index contains uncommitted changes Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh index ea7720d..ebd4df3 100755 --- a/git-rebase.sh +++ b/git-rebase.sh
@@ -332,11 +332,14 @@ fi # The tree must be really really clean. -git update-index --ignore-submodules --refresh || exit +if ! git update-index --ignore-submodules --refresh; then + echo >&2 "cannot rebase: you have unstaged changes" + exit 1 +fi diff=$(git diff-index --cached --name-status -r --ignore-submodules HEAD --) case "$diff" in -?*) echo "cannot rebase: your index is not up-to-date" - echo "$diff" +?*) echo >&2 "cannot rebase: your index contains uncommitted changes" + echo >&2 "$diff" exit 1 ;; esac