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am: be more helpful

Subject: am: be more helpful

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3 messages between Apr 9, 2010 and Apr 9, 2010.

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Sverre Rabbelier· Apr 9, 2010, 22:59 UTC · lore

Heya,

I run into this problem every now and then when I manually apply a patch. I apply it, do some stuff, and then having forgotten I already applied it, try to apply it again, and am confused as to why it won't apply. Would it be difficult to teach 'git am' to see if the patch-id of the patch that couldn't be applied has been applied already (similar to what 'git cherry' does I guess?) and print a helpful message saying "warning: patch already applied" when there is a conflict trying to apply such an already-applied patch?

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

Junio C Hamano· Apr 9, 2010, 23:27 UTC · re: Sverre Rabbelier · lore

Re: am: be more helpful

Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:

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> Heya,
>
> I run into this problem every now and then when I manually apply a
> patch. I apply it, do some stuff, and then having forgotten I already
> applied it, try to apply it again, and am confused as to why it won't
> apply. Would it be difficult to teach 'git am' to see if the patch-id
> of the patch that couldn't be applied has been applied already
> (similar to what 'git cherry' does I guess?) and print a helpful
> message saying "warning: patch already applied" when there is a
> conflict trying to apply such an already-applied patch?

"am -3"?

Sverre Rabbelier· Apr 9, 2010, 23:31 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: am: be more helpful

Heya,

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:27, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:
>> I run into this problem every now and then when I manually apply a
>> patch. I apply it, do some stuff, and then having forgotten I already
>> applied it, try to apply it again, and am confused as to why it won't
>> apply. Would it be difficult to teach 'git am' to see if the patch-id
>> of the patch that couldn't be applied has been applied already
>> (similar to what 'git cherry' does I guess?) and print a helpful
>> message saying "warning: patch already applied" when there is a
>> conflict trying to apply such an already-applied patch?
>
> "am -3"?

"Using index info to reconstruct a base tree... Falling back to patching base and 3-way merge... No changes -- Patch already applied."

Yeah, that's pretty much what I want, only I'd like to get that as a warning when running 'git am' without the -3. Either that, or have -3 be the default, which we all know won't happen :P. If I'd realize that perhaps I'd already applied the patch I could indeed use 'git am -3' to check that, or, as I do now (after a few minutes of confusion), scroll up and notice that I'd already applied it. What I want is to save me those minutes of confusion by having git DWIW.

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier