This is a *really* long-standing bug. As a matter of fact, this bug has
been with us from the very beginning of `rebase -i`: 1b1dce4bae7 (Teach
rebase an interactive mode, 2007-06-25), where the output of `rev-list`
was piped to `sed` (and any failure of the `rev-list` process would go
completely undetected).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de>
---
git-rebase--interactive.sh | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
index e3f5a0abf3c..b7f95672bd9 100644
--- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh
+++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
@@ -893,7 +893,8 @@ fi
if test t != "$preserve_merges"
then
git rebase--helper --make-script ${keep_empty:+--keep-empty} \
- $revisions ${restrict_revision+^$restrict_revision} >"$todo"
+ $revisions ${restrict_revision+^$restrict_revision} >"$todo" ||
+ die "$(gettext "Could not generate todo list")"
else
format=$(git config --get rebase.instructionFormat)
# the 'rev-list .. | sed' requires %m to parse; the instruction
requires %H to parse
--
2.15.1.windows.2
