From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:20:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 (v2)] reset: make the output more user-friendly.
Message-ID: <7viqgztj76.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1249676676-5051-2-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

>  cat > expect << EOF
> -file2: locally modified
> +Unstaged changes after reset:
> +M	file2

It simply feels backwards when plumbing output says something in human
language (e.g. "needs update") while Porcelain output spits out a cryptic
M or U.  If the goal is human-readability and user-friendliness, shouldn't
we rather say:

	Path with local modifications:
        	file2

or something?