Re: [PATCH] Stop telling users we are 'defaulting to local storage area'.

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

[...]
> It also breaks from our normal behavior of not printing
> anything if the command was successful.

Before everybody starts believing  everybody agrees with this I'll have 
to throw a tile in the pond.

I really don't think this is a good rule.

NOte that I'm not against commands that are silent by default.  I really 
think that git-add should remain silent on success by default when 
successful.

But the rule of thumb should be about the importance of the action 
performed by the command.  git-add is a less important command than 
git-init-db or git-commit _conceptually_.  You can do multiple git-add 
in whatever order, even repeatedly, and it won't change the outcome.  
It is "conceptually lightweight".  But git-init-db is really important.  
Without it you just can't do anything. It should give the user the 
impression that something did actually happen, especially since this is 
the git comand any new git user is most likely to use first.  Saying 
back "git repository initialized" tells the user "OK you can start now".  
Saying nothing might just leave the user wondering if everything is 
actually fine.