On 12-07-13 03:58 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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 OK, I got the opposite impression from your prev. mail when you mentioned that I hadn't limited the message output at all. I'm fine with the changes you've proposed below, and can squash that into a v3 and resend again. Paul. -- > 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 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html