From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] push: error out when the "upstream" semantics does not make sense
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 14:58:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120405195832.GA6885@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vlima5591.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>> Maybe something like
>>
>> die(_(
>> "You are pushing to remote '%s', which is not the upstream of your\n"
>> "current branch '%s', without specifying a refspec.\n"),
>> remote->name, branch->name);
>>
>> would be harder to misunderstand.
>
> Perhaps. Do we need to rephrase it without using the word 'refspec'
> (e.g. "without telling me what to push"), or there is no point avoiding
> jargon because other jargons (i.e. 'remote' and 'upstream') already appear
> in the sentence?
"without telling me what to push" sounds good.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-05 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-04 23:26 What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2012, #02; Wed, 4) Junio C Hamano
2012-04-05 12:47 ` Jeff King
2012-04-05 16:00 ` [PATCH] push: error out when the "upstream" semantics does not make sense Junio C Hamano
2012-04-05 18:43 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-05 19:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-05 19:58 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2012-04-05 20:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-05 20:23 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-05 20:24 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-04-05 20:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-06 7:16 ` Matthieu Moy
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