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From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
To: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>
Cc: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
	David <bouncingcats@gmail.com>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Samuel Lijin" <sxlijin@gmail.com>,
	"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	"Stefan Beller" <sbeller@google.com>,
	"Kaartic Sivaraam" <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?
Date: Tue,  6 Jun 2017 13:43:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170606114355.30749-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D0E8FF50F1E74043AA0BD71E80C365E5@PhilipOakley>


> >> In the context of "status", it probably is more logically correct if
> >> it said "No commit yet" or something.  This is no longer "is initial
> >> harder than root?" ;-)
> >
> > Exactly. I agree with OP, in the context of running 'git status', I find
> > the string "Initial commit" confusing in the example below, because
> > at that time no commits exist. This creates confusion what git is
> > talking about. The 'git log' message is not very friendly either.
> >
> > Perhaps say something like "Repository is empty." there.
> 
> <bikeshed>
> I like that. I think that is a very appropriately descriptive statement.
> 
> An alternative ,with slightly less textual change, could be "Waiting for 
> initial commit"
> </bikeshed>

We should consider orphan/unborn branches, too:

  git (master)$ git checkout --orphan newroot
  Switched to a new branch 'newroot'
  git (newroot +)$ git reset --hard
  git (newroot #)$ git status
  On branch newroot
  
  Initial commit
  
  nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)

A purely textual change will not be sufficient, I'm afraid.  Saying
"Repository is empty" right after 'git init' is fine, I like it.
However, on an unborn branch with empty index it would be just wrong.

"Waiting for initial commit" is much better even in this case, but I
still don't like that "initial", though I can't say why, and don't
have any better suggestion either.  Though users experienced enough to
create an empty unborn branch would probably not be confused by that.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-06 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-05 14:04 What does this output of git supposed to mean ? Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-06-05 23:10 ` brian m. carlson
2017-06-05 23:18   ` Stefan Beller
2017-06-06  1:00     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-06  1:11       ` brian m. carlson
2017-06-06  1:39         ` Samuel Lijin
2017-06-06  1:52           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-06  2:06             ` David
2017-06-06 11:07               ` Philip Oakley
2017-06-06 11:43                 ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2017-06-06 18:42                   ` Jeff King
2017-06-06 18:53                     ` Jeff King
2017-06-06 11:52                 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-06 14:08                   ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-06-06 22:05                     ` Philip Oakley
2017-06-07 12:56                       ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-06-07 22:14                         ` Philip Oakley

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