From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:42:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Message from git reset: confusing?
Message-ID: <32541b130908051042x5308e8fte7b3ead6bf1f24ee@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v1vnqb2hc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:
>
>> I was wondering what was the motivation for the output of "git merge":
>
> You meant "git reset".
>
>> $ git reset file
>> file: locally modified
>> $
>
> First a tangent.
>
> Removing this output _when no <path> is given_ would greatly reduce the
> usability of the command.

Yes.  I think the problem is that the current output looks more like
an error message than a status report.

I would find it very pleasant if the output looked more like the
output of "git checkout" (no parameters) in the no-files-specified
case.

Even if people don't know what "M" means on day 1 (although hopefully
they don't need "git reset" on day 1), at least it doesn't look like
an error message.

Have fun,

Avery