Re: FYI: git-am allows creation of empty commits.

From

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Date

Feb 24, 2006, 05:56 UTC

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<7v1wxtgv02.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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<m1slqahyxt.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> After fixing it up and doing all of my edits I occasionally forget
> the git-update-index step, before calling git-am --resolved.  This
> proceeds along it's merry way and creates an empty commit.

---

diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
index 85ecada..6730813 100755
--- a/git-am.sh
+++ b/git-am.sh
@@ -300,10 +300,16 @@ do
 	    } >"$dotest/final-commit"
 	    ;;
 	*)
-		case "$resolved,$interactive" in
-		tt)
-			# This is used only for interactive view option.
+		case "$resolved" in
+		t)
+			# This is used for interactive view option, but
+			# also we should see if the user really did
+			# something...
 			git-diff-index -p --cached HEAD >"$dotest/patch"
+			test -s "$dotest/patch" || {
+				echo "You said resolved, but there is no change in the index..."
+				stop_here $this
+			}
 			;;
 		esac
 	esac