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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-06-21 06:02:49 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-06-21 06:02:49 -0700
commit542ed78232ecbb1099eee5e3a4f1add0a2faa8d3 (patch)
tree043c1024a4a889d674ea80ae089459d1ba18eb05 /builtin/commit.c
parentd5cff17edaf438bbf45a2130e9cadc0c938291d6 (diff)
parentf197ed2fbeb2868c3514ad35bf986a3aa60285f0 (diff)
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Merge branch 'jk/maint-advice-empty-amend'
* jk/maint-advice-empty-amend: commit: give advice on empty amend
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin/commit.c')
-rw-r--r--builtin/commit.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index 511d4901d..5e4f0f33b 100644
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ static const char implicit_ident_advice[] =
"\n"
" git commit --amend --author='Your Name <you@example.com>'\n";
+static const char empty_amend_advice[] =
+"You asked to amend the most recent commit, but doing so would make\n"
+"it empty. You can repeat your command with --allow-empty, or you can\n"
+"remove the commit entirely with \"git reset HEAD^\".\n";
+
static unsigned char head_sha1[20];
static char *use_message_buffer;
@@ -708,6 +713,8 @@ static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix,
if (!commitable && !in_merge && !allow_empty &&
!(amend && is_a_merge(head_sha1))) {
run_status(stdout, index_file, prefix, 0, s);
+ if (amend)
+ fputs(empty_amend_advice, stderr);
return 0;
}