replay: find *onto only after testing for ref name

We are about to make `peel_committish` die when it cannot find
a commit-ish instead of returning `NULL`. But that would make e.g.
`git replay --advance=refs/non-existent` die with a less descriptive
error message; the highest-level error message is that the name does
not exist as a ref, not that we cannot find a commit-ish based on
the name.

Let’s try to find the ref and only after that try to peel to
as a commit-ish.

Also add a regression test to protect this error order from future
modifications.

Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Author: LemmingAvalanche

builtin/replay.c

@@ -192,14 +192,14 @@ static void set_up_replay_mode(struct repository *repo,
 		if (!*advance_name)
 			BUG("expected either onto_name or *advance_name in this function");
 
-		*onto = peel_committish(repo, *advance_name);
 		if (repo_dwim_ref(repo, *advance_name, strlen(*advance_name),
 			     &oid, &fullname, 0) == 1) {
 			free(*advance_name);
 			*advance_name = fullname;
 		} else {
 			die(_("argument to --advance must be a reference"));
 		}
+		*onto = peel_committish(repo, *advance_name);
 		if (rinfo.positive_refexprs > 1)
 			die(_("cannot advance target with multiple sources because ordering would be ill-defined"));
 	}

t/t3650-replay-basics.sh

@@ -51,6 +51,13 @@ test_expect_success 'setup bare' '
 	git clone --bare . bare
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'argument to --advance must be a reference' '
+	echo "fatal: argument to --advance must be a reference" >expect &&
+	oid=$(git rev-parse main) &&
+	test_must_fail git replay --advance=$oid topic1..topic2 2>actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'using replay to rebase two branches, one on top of other' '
 	git replay --ref-action=print --onto main topic1..topic2 >result &&