From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 15:08:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "not uptodate" changed to "has local changes"
Message-ID: <393B2C1A-49D3-48A7-BF7D-7938D212AF82@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805171102480.30431@racer>

El 17/5/2008, a las 12:04, Johannes Schindelin escribió:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 17 May 2008, André Goddard Rosa wrote:
>
>> Is this user interface set on stone? I think we should reserve the  
>> right
>> to improve always.
>
> Umm.
>
> As has been mentioned, this is not a "user interface".  The message  
> you
> are seeing comes from a _plumbing_ program, i.e. something _not_  
> meant for
> human consumption.

That would indicate a problem, if stuff not intended for human  
consumption is being dished up for exactly that: human consumption.

> I still think that it might be better to add a command line option  
> with a
> custom message, because that would _not_ break backwards- 
> compatibility.

Sounds like clutter to me. I'd instead favor just holding back this  
patch until 1.6, when (minor) "compatibility breaking" changes would  
be acceptable.

Wincent