Re: [PATCH] wt-status.c: Modified status message shown for a parent-less branch

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 4:42 AM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 01:49:20PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:

quoted

What about, "not making any assumptions" about what the user would
think when he views the output of `git status` ? Why not try some
general messages like,

* Staged changes
* Unstaged changes

instead of the messages such as

* Changes to be committed, Changes already in the index
* Changes not staged for commit, Changes not yet in the index

which seem to make assumptions about the user who view the output ?

Saying just "staged changes" is definitely accurate. I don't know if
some users would find that too terse, too. The phrase "not staged for
commit" gives more information if you don't know what "staged" means in
the Git world.

Perhaps there should be a message pointing people at documentation
explaining the index and staging terminology?

Offhand, this is something I was wondering about the other day - has
there ever been a discussion of what level of proficiency Git expects
of its users?

-Peff