git am: Display some help text when patch is empty
When a patch is found to be empty, prompt the user to use either
--skip or --abort.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
index 83a0df0..b6068df 100755
--- a/git-am.sh
+++ b/git-am.sh
@@ -592,6 +592,8 @@
test -s "$dotest/patch" || {
echo "Patch is empty. Was it split wrong?"
+ echo "If you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run \"$cmdline --skip\"."
+ echo "To restore the original branch and stop patching run \"$cmdline --abort\"."
stop_here $this
}
rm -f "$dotest/original-commit"
