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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: git-rebase--interactive needs a better message
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:56:22 +0100 (BST)
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Ho.

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Dmitry Potapov wrote:

> I have tried to use git-rebase --interactive today, and run into a strange
> error message saying:
> 
> /usr/bin/git-rebase--interactive: line 333: $GIT_DIR/.dotest-merge/author-script: No such file or directory
> 
> I had to scratch my head for a while before I realized that I forgot to
> say git-commit. So, it was mine mistake, but I think that it should be
> possible to have a better error message suggesting the user what to do.

Actually, it should just work, I'd say.  IOW git-rebase--interactive 
should store an author script also for "edit"s.

Ciao,
Dscho