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Re: patch: change “Everything up-to-date” to “Already up to date.” (No-op messages for git-push and git-pull)

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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date
Nov 30, 2021, 00:19 UTC
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On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 7:04 PM Anselm Schüler <mail@anselmschueler.com> wrote:
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> Why are the no-op messages for git-push and git-pull (i.e. when remote
> and local are identical) so different, while describing something very
> similar? IMO the messages should be either identical or very similar.
> git-pull results in “Already up to date.”, while git-push results
> in “Everything up-to-date”.
>
> It should be considered that other messages reading “Already up to
> date.” seem to use a translation system, it might be better to use
> that system here, too. Unfortunately, I don’t know how to do that
> (currently). At any rate, this patch could serve as a temporary
> “fix”.

This question/issue is raised from time to time, and the short answer is that send-pack is plumbing, thus there likely will be resistance to an arbitrary change of text. Denton goes into a bit more detail in his reply[1].

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20191122180433.GA57478@generichostname/
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Message 2 of 4 in “patch: change “Everything up-to-date” to “Already up to date.” (No-op messages for git-push and git-pull)”
  1. Anselm SchülerNov 30, 2021
  2. Eric SunshineNov 30, 2021
  3. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonNov 30, 2021
  4. Johannes SchindelinDec 3, 2021

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