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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> 


  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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