rebase --interactive: Compute upstream SHA1 before switching branches

If the upstream argument to rebase (the first argument) was relative to
HEAD and the name of the branch to rebase (the second argument) was given,
the upstream would have been interpreted relative to the second argument.
In particular, this command

git rebase -i HEAD topic

would always finish with "Nothing to do". (a1bf91e fixed the same issue
for non-interactive rebase.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
index 8ee08ff2fd4e414337f79a7e52d29ccda72377e6..0ca986f7213280bef067f7a0ee53d1a154f1803d 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh
+++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
@@ -475,6 +475,9 @@ do
 
                require_clean_work_tree
 
+               UPSTREAM=$(git rev-parse --verify "$1") || die "Invalid base"
+               test -z "$ONTO" && ONTO=$UPSTREAM
+
                if test ! -z "$2"
                then
                        output git show-ref --verify --quiet "refs/heads/$2" ||
@@ -484,12 +487,8 @@ do
                fi
 
                HEAD=$(git rev-parse --verify HEAD) || die "No HEAD?"
-               UPSTREAM=$(git rev-parse --verify "$1") || die "Invalid base"
-
                mkdir "$DOTEST" || die "Could not create temporary $DOTEST"
 
-               test -z "$ONTO" && ONTO=$UPSTREAM
-
                : > "$DOTEST"/interactive || die "Could not mark as interactive"
                git symbolic-ref HEAD > "$DOTEST"/head-name 2> /dev/null ||
                        echo "detached HEAD" > "$DOTEST"/head-name