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

From: David <bouncingcats@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 6, 2017, 02:06 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMPXz=oorE7MQa4a_1eC-+Huf1Tf2XQFjEBcQxsOdso9BJ1S-A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqvao9991r.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On 6 June 2017 at 11:52, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> For what it's worth, I've never quite understood the "Initial commit"
>> message, because the repository is in a state where there are no
>> commits yet, not when HEAD is pointing to a root commit.
>
> In the context of "status", it probably is more logically correct if
> it said "No commit yet" or something.  This is no longer "is initial
> harder than root?" ;-)

Exactly. I agree with OP, in the context of running 'git status', I find the string "Initial commit" confusing in the example below, because at that time no commits exist. This creates confusion what git is talking about. The 'git log' message is not very friendly either.

Perhaps say something like "Repository is empty." there.

$ mkdir test $ cd test $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /mnt/hart/home/david_d08/junk/test/.git/ $ git log fatal: bad default revision 'HEAD' $ git status On branch master

Initial commit

nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)