From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:59:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/ PATCH 4/5] t3030: update porcelain expected message
Message-ID: <20100610015919.GA32671@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <vpq1vcgym6j.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 10:40:20PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Diane Gasselin <diane.gasselin@ensimag.imag.fr> writes:
> 
> > From: Diane <diane.gasselin@ensimag.imag.fr>
> 
> You did something strange with git format-patch or send-email. This
> From header should appear in the header of your email, but not in the
> body.

The commit author is missing the last name, so send-email correctly
includes the extra "From" header. Probably the user.name config variable
needs updated (and the commit can be rebased and amended with
--reset-author to take the new author).

> > +cat> expected2 <<EOF
> > +error: Your local changes to the files:
> > +	a
> > +would be overwritten by merge.
> > +EOF
> 
> I'd have phrased it like this:
> 
> error: Your local changes to these files would be overwritten by merge:
> 	a
> 
> to avoid splitting the message in two parts. It's more consistant with
> the rest of Git (git status or git reset for example). Also, your
> version would become hard to read if the file list is long.

Yes, I think your version is much more readable.

-Peff