From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Steven Walter" Subject: Re: [PATCH] "not uptodate" changed to "has local changes" Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 10:44:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1209833972-12256-1-git-send-email-timcharper@gmail.com> <1ED37CF1-EABD-4881-BA29-ED2CB1CE73FC@sb.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Goddard_Rosa?=" , "Kevin Ballard" , "Mike Ralphson" , "Tim Harper" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Johannes Schindelin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat May 17 16:45:09 2008 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 1JxNel-0000Sl-PI for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 16:45:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755084AbYEQOoR (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2008 10:44:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752779AbYEQOoR (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2008 10:44:17 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.248]:25940 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754724AbYEQOoQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2008 10:44:16 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so297731and.103 for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 07:44:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=6pJvr3CHnIA1hLXHm0TnLMQALaH4gsGrVwfr9dU//Fw=; b=SX7pz643W5FwMaXiSToiJO2YX/mkT/tanOpeg3zw+7L7e4GG8zAP6Pz6DzL7ak919gMOr+WHq34XTdCTWb8gfSJsGp/A3bL6aF5dX/eRMbUfUUBL2ycxdqmZL9ViZHUTX9GboG1L+7O6Zq0GVwQDwQpMeOJzzVKKOiH+huj5AVU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=vzJESyOymM91QIeMwlJUPee9gxLGOs8N42YmuOd1MK3+rhB/z+XKoZ6cJKNN3VcL/koVNSs+vdDQyVQlzInA5TIDS232g8Bz5sTtM26eWC0N9r7HmalcacqZmPayzOuBJovQ2k5PS8XPZqe73PHxp+oCWwK2xoU9m8JQgttCmio= Received: by 10.100.229.12 with SMTP id b12mr6043857anh.60.1211035455852; Sat, 17 May 2008 07:44:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.92.6 with HTTP; Sat, 17 May 2008 07:44:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Johannes Schindelin 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