From: "Steven Walter" <stevenrwalter@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "André Goddard Rosa" <andre.goddard@gmail.com>,
"Kevin Ballard" <kevin@sb.org>,
"Mike Ralphson" <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>,
"Tim Harper" <timcharper@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "not uptodate" changed to "has local changes"
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 10:44:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e06498070805170744l7ad213aeqb779b0c0381e1de4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805171102480.30431@racer>
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Is this user interface set on stone? I think we should reserve the right
>> to improve always.
>
> Umm.
>
> As has been mentioned, this is not a "user interface". The message you
> are seeing comes from a _plumbing_ program, i.e. something _not_ meant for
> human consumption.
>
> I still think that it might be better to add a command line option with a
> custom message, because that would _not_ break backwards-compatibility.
With this dedication to backwards-compatibility, we'll be at Windows
Vista quality in no time.
--
-Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-17 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-03 16:59 [PATCH] "not uptodate" changed to "has local changes" Tim Harper
2008-05-06 13:31 ` Mike Ralphson
2008-05-16 2:14 ` André Goddard Rosa
2008-05-16 10:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-16 11:02 ` Holger Schurig
2008-05-16 11:50 ` Francis Moreau
2008-05-16 12:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-16 17:12 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-05-17 3:30 ` André Goddard Rosa
2008-05-17 10:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-17 14:44 ` Steven Walter [this message]
2008-05-17 16:12 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-05-17 18:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-17 20:14 ` Sverre Rabbelier
[not found] ` <200805181032.m4IAWjE0012832@mi0.bluebottle.com>
2008-05-18 11:11 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-05-17 19:03 ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2008-05-17 20:29 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-05-19 6:55 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-05-19 17:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-19 18:28 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-05-19 19:32 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-05-21 7:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-17 15:08 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-05-17 15:32 ` Matthieu Moy
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