git-am: suggest what to do with superfluous patches
authorJan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Sun, 30 May 2010 08:19:26 +0000 (10:19 +0200)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tue, 1 Jun 2010 00:48:38 +0000 (17:48 -0700)
commit05bdcfe5fc3d626b752c2cb574f05ed30b279bcf
tree31de3de69fa6bde0185b87663634636ad5648533
parent81fa024cd8e336ba257f13fe7724b95baacfa3ad
git-am: suggest what to do with superfluous patches

Particularly in the context of rebase, conflicts frequently occur
because the change in the patch to be applied was made obsolete by new
upstream commits. In this case, solving the conflict effectively means
skipping the patch. However, it's not always readily apparent that the
patch needs to be skipped, and when people solve the conflict and try
git rebase --continue, they get confronted with a message of

  No changes - did you forget to use 'git add'?

That's not very helpful if you did actually stage your changes and they
happen to turn the patch into a no-op. This extends the message to point
out what's going on.

Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-am.sh