The existing message, "Initial commit", makes sense for the commit template
notifying users that it's their initial commit, but is confusing when
merely checking the status of a fresh repository (or orphan branch)
without having any commits yet.

Change the output of "status" to say "No commits yet" when "git
status" is run on a fresh repo (or orphan branch), while retaining the
current "Initial commit" message displayed in the template that's
displayed in the editor when the initial commit is being authored.

A few alternatives considered were,

 * Waiting for initial commit
 * Your current branch does not have any commits
 * Current branch waiting for initial commit

The most succint one among the alternatives was chosen.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com>
---

 The 'FINAL' part in the subject is just my opinion about 
 this patch

 builtin/commit.c  |  1 +
 t/t7501-commit.sh |  2 +-
 t/t7508-status.sh | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 wt-status.c       |  5 ++++-
 wt-status.h       |  1 +
 5 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index 8d1cac062..3d614a2ac 100644
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -1648,6 +1648,7 @@ int cmd_commit(int argc, const char **argv, const char 
*prefix)
                usage_with_options(builtin_commit_usage, 
builtin_commit_options);
 
        status_init_config(&s, git_commit_config);
+       s.commit_template = 1;
        status_format = STATUS_FORMAT_NONE; /* Ignore status.short */
        s.colopts = 0;
 
diff --git a/t/t7501-commit.sh b/t/t7501-commit.sh
index 0b6da7ae1..fa61b1a4e 100755
--- a/t/t7501-commit.sh
+++ b/t/t7501-commit.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ test_expect_success 'initial status' '
        echo bongo bongo >file &&
        git add file &&
        git status >actual &&
-       test_i18ngrep "Initial commit" actual
+       test_i18ngrep "No commits yet" actual
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'fail initial amend' '
diff --git a/t/t7508-status.sh b/t/t7508-status.sh
index 5edcc6edf..0ffa585e2 100755
--- a/t/t7508-status.sh
+++ b/t/t7508-status.sh
@@ -1499,4 +1499,34 @@ test_expect_success 'git commit -m will commit a staged 
but ignored submodule' '
        git config -f .gitmodules  --remove-section submodule.subname
 '
 
+test_expect_success '"No commits yet" should be noted in status output' '
+       git checkout --orphan empty-branch-1 &&
+       git status >output &&
+       test_i18ngrep "No commits yet" output
+'
+
+test_expect_success '"No commits yet" should not be noted in status output' '
+       git checkout --orphan empty-branch-2 &&
+       test_commit test-commit-1 &&
+       git status >output &&
+       test_must_fail test_i18ngrep "No commits yet" output
+'
+
+test_expect_success '"Initial commit" should be noted in commit template' '
+       git checkout --orphan empty-branch-3 &&
+       touch to_be_committed_1 &&
+       git add to_be_committed_1 &&
+       git commit --dry-run >output &&
+       test_i18ngrep "Initial commit" output
+'
+
+test_expect_success '"Initial commit" should not be noted in commit template' '
+       git checkout --orphan empty-branch-4 &&
+       test_commit test-commit-2 &&
+       touch to_be_committed_2 &&
+       git add to_be_committed_2 &&
+       git commit --dry-run >output &&
+       test_must_fail test_i18ngrep "Initial commit" output
+'
+
 test_done
diff --git a/wt-status.c b/wt-status.c
index 068de38b5..a2e294bb2 100644
--- a/wt-status.c
+++ b/wt-status.c
@@ -1578,7 +1578,10 @@ static void wt_longstatus_print(struct wt_status *s)
 
        if (s->is_initial) {
                status_printf_ln(s, color(WT_STATUS_HEADER, s), "%s", "");
-               status_printf_ln(s, color(WT_STATUS_HEADER, s), _("Initial 
commit"));
+               status_printf_ln(s, color(WT_STATUS_HEADER, s),
+                                s->commit_template
+                                ? _("Initial commit")
+                                : _("No commits yet"));
                status_printf_ln(s, color(WT_STATUS_HEADER, s), "%s", "");
        }
 
diff --git a/wt-status.h b/wt-status.h
index 8a3864783..2389f0839 100644
--- a/wt-status.h
+++ b/wt-status.h
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ struct wt_status {
        char color_palette[WT_STATUS_MAXSLOT][COLOR_MAXLEN];
        unsigned colopts;
        int null_termination;
+       int commit_template;
        int show_branch;
        int hints;
 
-- 
2.11.0

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