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Re: Documentation of post-receive hook

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CMChristoph Michelbach <michelbach94@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 22, 2017, 19:09 UTC
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On Wed, 2017-11-22 at 10:14 +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Your suggesting to mention that particular message hints at me that
> you feel that the users may not necessarily understand that push did
> not result in any update of references on the other side when they
> see it.  If the message was clear enough to them, "when it reacts to
> push and updates" ought to be clear enough description, too.
> 
> And if that indeed is the case (and I would not be surprised if it
> is, but I suspect that most users are clueful enough), it is not the
> documentation, but the "Already up-to-date" message, that needs to
> be clarified, no?
> 
> Besides, we'd rather not cast the end-user facing message in stone
> in the documentation like that (especially when the message has
> known room for improvement and will change).
You're right (with everything you wrote). Your proposed text sounds good.
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  11. Re*: Documentation of post-receive hookJunio C Hamano, Nov 24, 2017

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