Re: [PATCH] Stop telling users we are 'defaulting to local storagearea'.

> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
> [...]
>> It also breaks from our normal behavior of not printing
>> anything if the command was successful.
>
> Before everybody starts believing  everybody agrees with this I'll have
> to throw a tile in the pond.
>
> I really don't think this is a good rule.
>
> NOte that I'm not against commands that are silent by default.  I really
> think that git-add should remain silent on success by default when
> successful.
>
> But the rule of thumb should be about the importance of the action
> performed by the command.  git-add is a less important command than
> git-init-db or git-commit _conceptually_.  You can do multiple git-add
> in whatever order, even repeatedly, and it won't change the outcome.
> It is "conceptually lightweight".  But git-init-db is really important.
> Without it you just can't do anything. It should give the user the
> impression that something did actually happen, especially since this is
> the git comand any new git user is most likely to use first.  Saying
> back "git repository initialized" tells the user "OK you can start now".
> Saying nothing might just leave the user wondering if everything is
> actually fine.