Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> If git am fails to apply something, the end user may need
> to know where to find the patch. This is normally known for
> a single patch, but if the user is processing a mbox with
> many patches, they may not have a single broken out patch
> handy. So, provide a helpful hint as to where they can
> find the patch to do some sort of manual fixup, if we
> are processing a mbox with more than one patch in it.
I would rather see this done even for a single patch mbox. The
patch that was fed to "git apply" by "git am" and failed to apply is
that one, not the one in the mbox you gave "git am". The latter may
be ungrokkable with GNU patch or "git apply", if the original was
sent in Quoted-Printable and such MIME funnies, which is the whole
point of having a separate file there for "git am", instead of
feeding the original.
I am not sure if we should limit $patch_format to mbox, but I think
showing this unconditionally regardless of mbox/stgit/hg will teach
the user only one location to remember, so perhaps like this?
Documentation/config.txt | 3 +++
git-am.sh | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 0e1168c..b1f0a75 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ advice.*::
Advice shown when you used linkgit:git-checkout[1] to
move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to create
a local branch after the fact.
+ amWorkDir::
+ Advice that shows the location of the patch file when
+ linkgit:git-am[1] fails to apply it.
--
core.fileMode::
diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
index dc48f87..f1ae932 100755
--- a/git-am.sh
+++ b/git-am.sh
@@ -834,9 +834,9 @@ did you forget to use 'git add'?"
if test $apply_status != 0
then
eval_gettextln 'Patch failed at $msgnum $FIRSTLINE'
- if test $patch_format = mbox && test "$last" -ne "1"
+ if test "$(git config --bool advice.amworkdir)" != false
then
- eval_gettextln "You can find the copy of the patch that failed here:
+ eval_gettextln "The copy of the patch that failed is found in:
$dotest/patch"
fi
stop_here_user_resolve $this
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