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Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date
Jun 6, 2017, 22:05 UTC
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From: "Kaartic Sivaraam" <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
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> On Tue, 2017-06-06 at 20:52 +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> "Waiting for the initial commit", or "No commits yet", can be
>> explained to describe the state of the current branch (not the state
>> of the repository), and it is correct that we do not have any commit
>> on the branch, and the branch is waiting for the initial commit.
>>
> Looks descriptive to me too. Just for the note, I wouldn't have asked
> this question if `git status` showed a message like this.
>

Maybe have a try at a patch to update the text? See the git/Documentation/SubmittingPatches for guidance.

> -- 
> Regards,
> Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
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