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From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira.uka.de>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	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 11:40:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081026104006.GA18969@neumann> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810261128.14735.trast@student.ethz.ch>

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:28:09PM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote:
> Jeff King wrote:
> > > +			print STDERR "No changes except to binary files.\n";
> >   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.
What about

   Only binary files changed.

or something of the sort?

Gábor

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-26 10:41 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
2008-10-26 10:40     ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2008-10-26 19:37       ` [PATCH v2] " Thomas Rast
2008-10-26 19:38         ` Jeff King

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