If the index wasn't clean, git-rebase would simply show the output from
git-diff-index with no further comment to the user.
---
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
$
diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh
index 99cedad..9d2f71d 100755
--- a/git-rebase.sh
+++ b/git-rebase.sh
@@ -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
--
1.5.0.rc2.86.gf4f4f-dirty
--
David Kågedal