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

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:

quoted

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 master

    No commits yet on the branch

    nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to
track)
Since we've already pointed out that the user is on a branch.

I thought one of the points was to disambiguate the case of "no
commits
yet in the repository" and "no commits yet on the branch". If we
don't
care about making that distinction (or think that the mention of the
branch is enough to make it clear), then succinct is fine. I don't
have
a strong opinion either way.

I had the same thought in the beginning but the sample output seemed to
make me think "The terse message was fine". I am unopinionated, too.
I'll stay with "No commits yet" for now until someone suggests to
change it due to confusion about whether it's a "No commits yet on the
branch" or it's a "No commits yet on this repository".

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Regards,
Kaartic Sivaraam [off-list ref]