From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Modify description file to say what this file is Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:16:36 -0800 Message-ID: <7v63j838gr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <200902171012.06176.johnflux@gmail.com> <7vvdr852nj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <43d8ce650902171531r47bd79cco1524ec883e4c6114@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git Mailing List To: John Tapsell X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 18 01:18:13 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LZa8j-0005zz-5o for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:18:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751422AbZBRAQp (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:16:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751396AbZBRAQp (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:16:45 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:53265 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751372AbZBRAQp (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:16:45 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B65042B5AB; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:16:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ED9F22B5A7; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:16:37 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650902171531r47bd79cco1524ec883e4c6114@mail.gmail.com> (John Tapsell's message of "Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:31:08 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 6AD1FAFE-FD51-11DD-8F99-6F7C8D1D4FD0-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: John Tapsell writes: > 2009/2/18 Junio C Hamano : > > Btw, google seems to show other programs using the description file, > not just gitweb. How about changing it to "Unnamed repository: edit > the file 'description' to name the repository" ? Sure. I also think "edit this file 'description' to name..." (not "the", but "this") would give a bit more hint to a user with a better intuition that the message is not something that is given by an individual program (e.g. gitweb or the sample hook) but is a product of catting a file that exists somewhere in the repository in question, and may reduce unnecessary requests for help saying "The program tells me to edit 'description' file, but where should I *create* one?"