From: Alex Riesen Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:24:39 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] send-pack: print "maybe you need to pull" hint Message-ID: <20071120182439.GB3461@steel.home> In-Reply-To: <20071120112146.GB7814@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King, Tue, Nov 20, 2007 12:21:46 +0100: > If there were refs rejected for not being fastforwards, then > we used to print a "maybe you are not up-to-date" hint. This > was lost in the recent terse-output patches. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff King > --- > I am slightly negative on this patch, just because I always found that > particular warning a bit ugly (and the new output is so nice and > compact). But for new users, perhaps the extra hint is helpful? Dunno. It's kind of dumb hint and it takes lots of space. I was even thinking about hint(const char *,...), which can be configured to compile out in Makefile.