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

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Jun 7, 2017, 22:14 UTC
Message-ID: <6500B5D478934FE1A5EB49F6B936BF80@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <2d7e165d-b44c-ab3c-a4db-af5df64048a9@gmail.com>

From: "Kaartic Sivaraam" <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>

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> On Wednesday 07 June 2017 03:35 AM, Philip Oakley wrote:
>> Maybe have a try at a patch to update the text? See the 
>> git/Documentation/SubmittingPatches for guidance.
> I guess this should be trivial (correct me if I'm wrong). I'll try when I 
> find time. In case I make the change which of the following message should 
> replace the message 'Initial commit' ? (this could be a poll, I guess)
>
> 1. No commit yet
> 2. Waiting for initial commit
> 3. Your current branch does not have any commits

2, or 3, or a mix of the two "current branch waiting for initial commit" maybe.

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> Further what is to be done about the following comment,
>
> On Wednesday 07 June 2017 12:23 AM, Jeff King wrote:
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> 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).
>
> BTW, could anyone provide a pointer to the implementation that prints this 
> message ?

I think the two messages are in wt-status.c with the simple "Initial commit" at ~L1560, while ~L1728 has the "Initial commit on" line.

Philip

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> Regards,
> Kaartic Sivaraam