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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-06-22 09:31:48 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-06-22 09:31:48 -0700
commitabd3fd358b73c3a09eb0e70ebe91cd8807c9777d (patch)
tree4b50adcfe346d4d7e1743db423c4c2b17b9c55d6 /builtin
parentb2a60953085651fe892ee20508fe2f561f0bba8f (diff)
parentf197ed2fbeb2868c3514ad35bf986a3aa60285f0 (diff)
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Merge branch 'jk/maint-advice-empty-amend' into maint
* jk/maint-advice-empty-amend: commit: give advice on empty amend
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin')
-rw-r--r--builtin/commit.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index b71d8f62d..9d59af034 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;
@@ -699,6 +704,8 @@ 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;
}