1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/dgit b/dgit
index 3f637f1..55d71f9 100755
--- a/dgit
+++ b/dgit
@@ -2578,9 +2578,20 @@ sub quiltify_splitbrain ($$$$$$) {
     local $ENV{GIT_COMMITTER_NAME} =  $authline[0];
     local $ENV{GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL} = $authline[1];
     local $ENV{GIT_COMMITTER_DATE} =  $authline[2];
+	
     if ($quilt_mode =~ m/gbp|unapplied/ &&
-	($diffbits->{O2A} & 01) && # some patches
-	!($diffbits->{H2O} & 01)) { # but HEAD is like orig
+	($diffbits->{H2O} & 01)) {
+	my $msg =
+ "--quilt=$quilt_mode specified, implying patches-unapplied git tree\n".
+ " but git tree differs from orig in upstream files.";
+	if (!stat_exists "debian/patches") {
+	    $msg .=
+ "\n ... debian/patches is missing; perhaps this is a patch queue branch?";
+	}  
+	fail $msg;
+    }
+    if ($quilt_mode =~ m/gbp|unapplied/ &&
+	($diffbits->{O2A} & 01)) { # some patches
 	quiltify_splitbrain_needed();
 	progress "creating patches-applied version using gbp-pq";
 	open STDOUT, ">/dev/null" or die $!;