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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Message from git reset: confusing?
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:25:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0908051125n3e125209n88a9fd86d6fa7534@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32541b130908051042x5308e8fte7b3ead6bf1f24ee@mail.gmail.com>

Heya,

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:42, Avery Pennarun<apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes.  I think the problem is that the current output looks more like
> an error message than a status report.

Definitely.

> I would find it very pleasant if the output looked more like the
> output of "git checkout" (no parameters) in the no-files-specified
> case.

Perhaps instead we could get away with simply adding a header like
'git status' does? And perhaps change the wording some.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-05 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-05 15:25 Message from git reset: confusing? Matthieu Moy
2009-08-05 17:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-05 17:42   ` Avery Pennarun
2009-08-05 18:07     ` John Tapsell
2009-08-05 18:25     ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2009-08-06  9:42       ` Matthieu Moy
2009-08-06 19:21         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-07 20:24           ` [PATCH 1/2] Rename REFRESH_SAY_CHANGED to REFRESH_IN_PORCELAIN Matthieu Moy
2009-08-07 20:24             ` [PATCH 2/2 (v2)] reset: make the output more user-friendly Matthieu Moy
2009-08-07 21:20               ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-08  7:44                 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-08-17 17:31                   ` Matthieu Moy
2009-08-17 19:50                     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-21  8:57                     ` [PATCH 1/2] Rename REFRESH_SAY_CHANGED to REFRESH_IN_PORCELAIN Matthieu Moy
2009-08-21  8:57                       ` [PATCH 2/2 (v3)] reset: make the output more user-friendly Matthieu Moy
2009-08-22  5:44                         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-22  7:52                           ` Matthieu Moy
2009-08-23  2:33                             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-23 10:42                               ` Matthieu Moy
2009-08-23 11:45                                 ` Reece Dunn

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