Fix 'git commit -a' in a newly initialized repository

With current git: $ git init $ git commit -a cp: cannot stat `.git/index': No such file or directory Output a nice error message instead. Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <frekui@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git · Feb 23, 2007 · 755b99d · 755b99d
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diff --git a/git-commit.sh b/git-commit.sh
@@ -318,6 +318,10 @@ esac
 
 case "$all,$also" in
 t,)
+	if test ! -f "$THIS_INDEX"
+	then
+		die 'nothing to commit (use "git add file1 file2" to include for commit)'
+	fi
 	save_index &&
 	(
 		cd_to_toplevel &&