Re: [PATCH/ALMOST FINAL] Contextually notify user about an initial commit

2017-06-19 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 10:34:59AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > >> Why not simply "No commits yet", saying "on the branch" is needlessy >> duplicating information in the context of the status output in which >> this is printed, i.e. now you have: >> >> $ ~/g/gi

Re: [PATCH/ALMOST FINAL] Contextually notify user about an initial commit

2017-06-19 Thread Kaartic Sivaraam
On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 05:10 -0400, Jeff King wrote: > On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 10:34:59AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > wrote: > > > Why not simply "No commits yet", saying "on the branch" is > > needlessy > > duplicating information in the context of the status output in > > which > > this is p

Re: [PATCH/ALMOST FINAL] Contextually notify user about an initial commit

2017-06-19 Thread Jeff King
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 10:34:59AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Why not simply "No commits yet", saying "on the branch" is needlessy > duplicating information in the context of the status output in which > this is printed, i.e. now you have: > > $ ~/g/git/git-status > On branch

Re: [PATCH/ALMOST FINAL] Contextually notify user about an initial commit

2017-06-18 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sun, Jun 18 2017, Kaartic Sivaraam jotted: > "git status" indicated "Initial commit" when HEAD points at > an unborn branch. This message is shared with the commit > log template "git commit" prepares for the user when > creating a commit (i.e. "You are about to create the initial > commit"),

[PATCH/ALMOST FINAL] Contextually notify user about an initial commit

2017-06-18 Thread Kaartic Sivaraam
"git status" indicated "Initial commit" when HEAD points at an unborn branch. This message is shared with the commit log template "git commit" prepares for the user when creating a commit (i.e. "You are about to create the initial commit"), and is OK as long as the reader is aware of the nature of