From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 18:53:24 GMT
Subject: Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?
Message-ID: <20170606185324.ocedi4e3teqi3ayk@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20170606184200.4xohdrwxqqvxgkr7@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 02:42:01PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> > "Waiting for initial commit" is much better even in this case, but I
> > still don't like that "initial", though I can't say why, and don't
> > have any better suggestion either.  Though users experienced enough to
> > create an empty unborn branch would probably not be confused by that.
> 
> I agree. If the state we are describing is limited to the current
> branch, how about saying so? Like "Your current branch has no commits".

Actually, something like "does not yet have any commits" might be
better.

There is a slight complication, though. There's similar text in "git
status -sb", which shows:

  ## Initial commit on master

Should that also change to use consistent terminology? If so, we need a
phrasing short phrasing that matches (and the --porcelain and
--porcelain=v2 formats of course would need to remain the same).

-Peff