Re: am: be more helpful

[Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>]

Heya,

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

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier