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

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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date
Jun 6, 2017, 11:07 UTC
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From: "David" <bouncingcats@gmail.com>
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> On 6 June 2017 at 11:52, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 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.

<bikeshed> I like that. I think that is a very appropriately descriptive statement.

An alternative ,with slightly less textual change, could be "Waiting for initial commit" </bikeshed>

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>
> $ 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) 
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  1. Kaartic SivaraamJun 5, 2017
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  3. Stefan BellerJun 5, 2017
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  5. brian m. carlsonJun 6, 2017
  6. Samuel LijinJun 6, 2017
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  8. DavidJun 6, 2017
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