[PATCH] I don't known anyone who understands what it means when they do a merge and see "file.txt: needs update". "file.txt: has changes" is much clearer.

From: Tim Harper <timcharper@gmail.com>
Date: May 3, 2008, 07:08 UTC
Message-ID: <1209798522-13618-1-git-send-email-timcharper@gmail.com>

---
 read-cache.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index a92b25b..971667d 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -999,7 +999,7 @@ int refresh_index(struct index_state *istate, unsigned int flags, const char **p
 			}
 			if (quiet)
 				continue;
-			printf("%s: needs update\n", ce->name);
+			printf("%s: has changes\n", ce->name);
 			has_errors = 1;
 			continue;
 		}

-- 
1.5.5.1