git-svn: error out from dcommit on a parent-less commit
dcommit would unconditionally append "~1" to a commit in order
to generate a diff. Now we generate a meaningful error message
if we try to generate an impossible diff.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index 80b7b87..f0db4af 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -589,6 +589,13 @@
chomp(my @refs = safe_qx(qw/git-rev-list --no-merges/, "$gs..HEAD"));
my $last_rev;
foreach my $d (reverse @refs) {
+ if (quiet_run('git-rev-parse','--verify',"$d~1") != 0) {
+ die "Commit $d\n",
+ "has no parent commit, and therefore ",
+ "nothing to diff against.\n",
+ "You should be working from a repository ",
+ "originally created by git-svn\n";
+ }
unless (defined $last_rev) {
(undef, $last_rev, undef) = cmt_metadata("$d~1");
unless (defined $last_rev) {
