Re: [PATCH v2] convert: clarify line ending conversion warning

From: Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>
Date: Apr 6, 2022, 18:18 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPMMpohYRTSaTcRVTJ6y=Q7+FSOcSNjHjwDvUMhVv4JO7QDB_g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20220406180434.4zlb2bwpu6cfumta@tb-raspi4>

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 8:04 PM Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:

> May be we can use "updates" instead of "touches" ?
>
> "In '%s', CRLF will be replaced by LF the next time Git updates it"

Makes sense to me.

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> Or may be
>
> "In '%s', CRLF will be replaced by LF the next time a `git checkout` updates it"
>

I believe we should stay away from the word "checkout" because it's
neither accurate nor clear, for at least a couple of reasons:
1. We have long, in principle, been promoting the use of "git switch",
and it's not obvious in a message like this one that this is
considered to be equivalent.
2. Files can be touched/updated by other commands/processes, like "git
pull" (and "rebase", and probably others I can't think of)