Re: [PATCH] git-reset --hard: use quotes when we tell the user what HEAD was reset to

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 6, 2007, 19:26 UTC
Message-ID: <7v8xgg553u.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070106102322.7468.57615.stgit@c165>

Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se> writes:

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> Idea and motivating example from Andy Whitcroft:
>
>     apw@pinky$ git checkout -b bar master
>     apw@pinky$ git reset --hard ac9c1108d8915f0937795e354ad72c4ae6890a3f
>     HEAD is now at ac9c110... git-fetch: remove .keep file at the end.
>
>     Huh, fetch?  Remove what .keep file?  Did I do a fetch?  What?
>
>     I think we need to delimit the name better, probabally we need to quote
>     it.  Perhaps something like:
>
>     HEAD is now at ac9c110: "git-fetch: remove .keep file at the end".

I've also considered something along that line, but:

 (1) I think this 'confusion' is only because you are futzing
     with a project that deals with git-fetch and friends and
     not a general problem.

 (2) With "HEAD is now at xxxxx..."  prefix, even two characters
     are precious to fit the title of the commit on a single
     line.

With these in mind, do you still want to do this?