bin/gen-DSA: Try and avoid duplicated work when generating DLAs and ELAs due to lack of co-ordination in the -needed.txt files.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bin/gen-DSA b/bin/gen-DSA
index 3ced2eef36..fd88f2679b 100755
--- a/bin/gen-DSA
+++ b/bin/gen-DSA
@@ -394,6 +394,9 @@ EOF
 	if [ -d .git ]; then
 	    echo "Made the following changes:"
 	    git diff -- data/$IDMODE/list $needed_file
+	    if ! git diff-index --name-only HEAD -- $needed_file | grep -qs .; then
+		warn "did not make any changes to $needed_file - this may indicate duplicate work"
+	    fi
 	fi
 	warn "you need to commit and push the changes to data/$IDMODE/list etc. to actually reserve the $IDMODE-$DAID number and avoid conflicts with others."
 	if [ -d .git ]; then