diff --git a/patches/server/Setup-Gradle-project.patch b/patches/server/Setup-Gradle-project.patch
index 8c692860c5..59edee3d30 100644
--- a/patches/server/Setup-Gradle-project.patch
+++ b/patches/server/Setup-Gradle-project.patch
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ From: Kyle Wood <kyle@denwav.dev>
 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:54:19 -0800
 Subject: [PATCH] Setup Gradle project
 
+The pom.xml file is deleted in this patch so the patch will fail to
+apply if there are changes made to it from upstream - thus notifying us
+that changes were made.
 
 diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 100644