From b0353c49e72c5ee772511654aee7c3e7c0120900 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: agrohsje <alexander.grohsjean@desy.de>
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 04:36:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] suppressed error messages for cp to allow for empty patch
 directory

---
 mcgeneration/setup_production.sh | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mcgeneration/setup_production.sh b/mcgeneration/setup_production.sh
index 63c0f2f8b..1fb167804 100644
--- a/mcgeneration/setup_production.sh
+++ b/mcgeneration/setup_production.sh
@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ else
 	cp -r ${EFTMCPATH}/${COPY} ${GENPRODPATH}/bin/MadGraph5_aMCatNLO/.
     done
 
-    # add mg5_amc@nlo patches which are not yet in geproductions 
-    cp -r ${EFTMCPATH}/mg5patches/* ${GENPRODPATH}/bin/MadGraph5_aMCatNLO/patches/.
+    # add mg5_amc@nlo patches which are not yet in geproductions
+    # suppress error messages as there might be no special mg5 patches and error messages are confusing  
+    cp -r ${EFTMCPATH}/mg5patches/* ${GENPRODPATH}/bin/MadGraph5_aMCatNLO/patches/. 2>/dev/null 
 
     # adjust central scripts 
     cd ${GENPRODPATH}/bin/MadGraph5_aMCatNLO