Re: [PATCH v2] status: display "doing what" information in git status
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- May 6, 2011, 18:24 UTC
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- <20110506173656.GA2872@madism.org>
Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:
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>> > + const char * const rebase_advice =
>> > + _("use \"git rebase --abort\" to abort current rebase or proceed");
>> > + const char * const am_advice =
>> > + _("use \"git am --abort\" to abort current mailbox apply or proceed");
>>
>> If the reader does not even know that the "--abort" option is used to
>> abort, " or proceed" needs to be followed by "by doing $this", if it wants
>> to have any practical value. I would suggest dropping it.
>>
>> > + const char * const merge_advice =
>> > + _("use \"git reset --hard\" to abort, or resolve conflicts and commit");
>> This codepath being in wt-status.c, I wonder if any of these advices could
>> trigger to appear in the log message editor when the user tries to run
>> "git commit". If so, I suspect any of the above is too late to help the
>> user, no?
>
> Well I'm not very happy with the advices, feel free to reword them in a better
> way.I already suggested dropping it ;-) Rewording to emptiness would be the simplest and cleanest.
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>> Also, should we make these conditional upon advice.status or something?
> they are
> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
> + if (advice && advice_status_hints) {
> + status_printf(s, color(WT_STATUS_HEADER, s), "");
> + status_printf_more(s, status_nobranch, " (%s)\n", advice);
> + }By the way, this change also breaks t7060, at least.