Message from git reset: confusing?

[Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>]

Hi,

I was wondering what was the motivation for the output of "git merge":

$ git reset file
file: locally modified
$ 

I find this message misleading, since it gives me the feeling that
"git reset" errored out because of the file being locally modified (I
also got the remark from a git beginner to whom I was showing the
command: "hey, why didn't it work??").

And indeed, I do not understand the motivation for showing this
message. When I stage content (git add), Git tells me nothing, so why
should it do so when I unstage content? If I want to know the state of
the index after running reset, I'll run "git status" myself ...

I'd suggest adding a -v|--verbose flag to git reset, and default to
being quiet (the already existing -q flag would still be used, to
disable progress indicator). What do other people think?

-- 
Matthieu