From: John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:14:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Disabling status hints in COMMIT_EDITMSG
Message-ID: <CAEBDL5VVxMSPnfwBL4PiQAjAHDX1FkfaG3SOFZ1oqEh8d6S1YQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq61u7akin.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> But at the same time, I feel that these redundant lines, especially
>> the latter one, would give the users a stronger cue than just saying
>> that "bar is Untracked"; "do X to include" reminds that bar will not
>> be included if nothing is done.
>
> The one which draw my attention was "(use "git commit" to conclude
> merge)" which is particularly counter-productive when you are already
> doing a "git commit". The advice for untracked files is less
> counter-productive, but while we're removing the non-sensical ones, I
> think it makes sense to remove the essentially-useless ones too.

FWIW, I think it makes sense to remove the extra advice too.

-John