From: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>
To: "Kaartic Sivaraam" <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "David" <bouncingcats@gmail.com>,
"Samuel Lijin" <sxlijin@gmail.com>,
"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
"Stefan Beller" <sbeller@google.com>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 23:05:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A4DB115A50D432A8FF7B8589C5BAC84@PhilipOakley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1496758102.6664.2.camel@gmail.com
From: "Kaartic Sivaraam" <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
> On Tue, 2017-06-06 at 20:52 +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> "Waiting for the initial commit", or "No commits yet", can be
>> explained to describe the state of the current branch (not the state
>> of the repository), and it is correct that we do not have any commit
>> on the branch, and the branch is waiting for the initial commit.
>>
> Looks descriptive to me too. Just for the note, I wouldn't have asked
> this question if `git status` showed a message like this.
>
Maybe have a try at a patch to update the text? See the
git/Documentation/SubmittingPatches for guidance.
> --
> Regards,
> Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-06 22:04 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
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 [this message]
2017-06-07 12:56 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-06-07 22:14 ` Philip Oakley
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