From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add -p: warn if only binary changes present
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:28:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810261128.14735.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081026051013.GD21178@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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Jeff King wrote:
> > + print STDERR "No changes except to binary files.\n";
>
> This wording seems a little awkward to me, though. Maybe
>
> No changed text files.
>
> ?
I tried to make a more precise statement. "No changed text files"
also holds if no files at all were changed. A user can only infer
that there _are_ binary changes if he knows that the message in the
latter case would have been "No changes".
That being said, it is somewhat awkward, I just couldn't come up with
a better message with this meaning. I considered some other options,
such as giving a hint to use git-add or running git-status for the
user, but these would have been far more verbose.
- Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-26 10:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-24 21:48 [PATCH] add -p: warn if only binary changes present Thomas Rast
2008-10-26 5:10 ` Jeff King
2008-10-26 10:28 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2008-10-26 10:40 ` SZEDER Gábor
2008-10-26 19:37 ` [PATCH v2] " Thomas Rast
2008-10-26 19:38 ` Jeff King
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