Re: [RFC/PATCH] Make git-{pull,rebase} no-tracking message friendlier

From: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date: Feb 27, 2012, 17:07 UTC
Message-ID: <1330362454.691.5.camel@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk>
In-Reply-To: <7vhayh2t15.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 12:28 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> writes:
> 
> > The current message is too long and at too low a level for anybody to
> > understand it if they don't know about the configuration format
> > already.
> >
> > Reformat it to show the commands a user would be expected to use,
> > instead of the contents of the configuration file.
> > ---
> 
> Sounds like a change going in the right direction.  I am unsure if it is a
> good idea to remove "See git-config...", but otherwise I like the updated
> text much better.

We're already telling them to go look at the git-pull or git-rebase manpages, where there's already a lot of information and adding another RTFM seemed a bit unfriendly (and not that useful, as they'd be manipulating the config via other commands and shouldn't need to care about config that much)

> 
> But of course I am not the target audience, so let's see what we hear from
> others.

Sure, I'll see if I can come up with some better wording and send a signed-off patch.

cmn