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| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/commit.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c index c5ab683d5b..216ecc91d1 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; @@ -693,6 +698,8 @@ 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; } |