No changes to commit. Please stage your changes first.

Error message

No changes to commit. Please stage your changes first.

What it means

Error "No changes to commit. Please stage your changes first." thrown in Kong/insomnia.

Source

Thrown at packages/insomnia-vcs/src/vcs.ts:667

  }

  async getBranchNames(): Promise<string[]> {
    const branches = await this._getBranches();
    return branches.map(b => b.name);
  }

  async merge(candidates: StatusCandidate[], otherBranchName: string, snapshotMessage?: string) {
    const branch = await this._getCurrentBranch();
    console.log(`[sync] Merged branch ${otherBranchName} into ${branch.name}`);
    return this._merge(candidates, branch.name, otherBranchName, snapshotMessage);
  }

  async takeSnapshot(name: string) {
    const stage = clone<Stage>(this._stageByBackendProjectId[this._backendProjectId()] || {});

    // Ensure there is something on the stage
    if (Object.keys(stage).length === 0) {
      throw new Error('No changes to commit. Please stage your changes first.');
    }

    const branch: Branch = await this._getCurrentBranch();
    const parent: Snapshot | null = await this._getLatestSnapshot(branch.name);

    if (!name) {
      throw new Error('Commit must have a message');
    }

    const newState = applyStageToState(parent ? parent.state : [], stage);

    const snapshot = await this._createSnapshotFromState(branch, newState, name);

    // Clear the staged changes
    for (const key of Object.keys(stage)) {
      delete stage[key];
    }
    this._stageByBackendProjectId[this._backendProjectId()] = stage;

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/insomnia-vcs/src/vcs.ts:667 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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