From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Minor grammar fix in the 'Not a git repository' message Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:51:03 -0800 Message-ID: <7vk57pevig.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <8787c5894e7831bbd1ace3b2fd6649f1362d4b78.1234825069u.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> <7vd4diez2z.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20090217001747.GA23278@vidovic> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Sebrecht X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 17 01:52:44 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 1LZECX-00075p-7z for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:52:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751516AbZBQAvM (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:51:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751413AbZBQAvK (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:51:10 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:39531 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751342AbZBQAvJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:51:09 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C39892B48D; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:51:08 -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 2EB4D2B47D; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:51:05 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20090217001747.GA23278@vidovic> (Nicolas Sebrecht's message of "Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:17:47 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 1077B400-FC8D-11DD-A3AF-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: Nicolas Sebrecht writes: > The message > "Not inside a git repository" > of Wincent looks like the clearest and the fairest one. I tend to agree. I was only trying to see if we can salvage a more precise diagnosis f66bc5f (Always show which directory is not a git repository, 2008-12-22) tried to give users, but to do it throughly the sentence will become even more awkward. "Not inside a bare git repository nor a work tree that has .git/ somewhere in it."