Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

From: "Kaartic Sivaraam" On Wednesday 07 June 2017 03:35 AM, Philip Oakley wrote: Maybe have a try at a patch to update the text? See the git/Documentation/SubmittingPatches for guidance. I guess this should be trivial (correct me if I'm wrong). I'll try when I

Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

On Wednesday 07 June 2017 03:35 AM, Philip Oakley wrote: Maybe have a try at a patch to update the text? See the git/Documentation/SubmittingPatches for guidance. I guess this should be trivial (correct me if I'm wrong). I'll try when I find time. In case I make the change which of the

Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

From: "Kaartic Sivaraam" On Tue, 2017-06-06 at 20:52 +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: "Waiting for the initial commit", or "No commits yet", can be explained to describe the state of the current branch (not the state of the repository), and it is correct that we do

Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 02:42:01PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > "Waiting for initial commit" is much better even in this case, but I > > still don't like that "initial", though I can't say why, and don't > > have any better suggestion either. Though users experienced enough to > > create an empty

Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 01:43:55PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > > An alternative ,with slightly less textual change, could be "Waiting for > > initial commit" > > > > We should consider orphan/unborn branches, too: > > git (master)$ git checkout --orphan newroot > Switched to a new branch

Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

On Tue, 2017-06-06 at 20:52 +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Waiting for the initial commit", or "No commits yet", can be > explained to describe the state of the current branch (not the state > of the repository), and it is correct that we do not have any commit > on the branch, and the branch is

Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

"Philip Oakley" writes: > From: "David" > >> Perhaps say something like "Repository is empty." there. > > > I like that. I think that is a very appropriately descriptive statement. > > An alternative ,with slightly less textual change, could be

Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

> >> In the context of "status", it probably is more logically correct if > >> it said "No commit yet" or something. This is no longer "is initial > >> harder than root?" ;-) > > > > Exactly. I agree with OP, in the context of running 'git status', I find > > the string "Initial commit"

Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

From: "David" On 6 June 2017 at 11:52, Junio C Hamano wrote: Samuel Lijin writes: For what it's worth, I've never quite understood the "Initial commit" message, because the repository is in a state where there are no commits

Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

On 6 June 2017 at 11:52, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Samuel Lijin writes: > >> For what it's worth, I've never quite understood the "Initial commit" >> message, because the repository is in a state where there are no >> commits yet, not when HEAD is pointing to

Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

Samuel Lijin writes: > For what it's worth, I've never quite understood the "Initial commit" > message, because the repository is in a state where there are no > commits yet, not when HEAD is pointing to a root commit. Ah, that is true. The message in the "status" output

Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:11 PM, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 10:00:12AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Stefan Beller writes: >> >> > On the subject: maybe we want to rename initial commit >> > to root commit? (evil-me also

Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 10:00:12AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Stefan Beller writes: > > > On the subject: maybe we want to rename initial commit > > to root commit? (evil-me also thinks we could name it > > "parent-less commit", to reinforce what the lovely git man > >

Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

Stefan Beller writes: > On the subject: maybe we want to rename initial commit > to root commit? (evil-me also thinks we could name it > "parent-less commit", to reinforce what the lovely git man > page generator tries to point at.) Is "initial" harder to understand than

Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 4:10 PM, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 07:34:12PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I noticed a weird output by git when trying to run 'git status' on a >> newly initialized git repository. It prints the

Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 07:34:12PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote: > Hello all, > > I noticed a weird output by git when trying to run 'git status' on a > newly initialized git repository. It prints the following, > > > On branch master > > > > Initial commit > > > > nothing to commit

What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

Hello all, I noticed a weird output by git when trying to run 'git status' on a newly initialized git repository. It prints the following, > On branch master > > Initial commit > > nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track) What's that "Initial commit" supposed to mean?