From: Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 14:44:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "not uptodate" changed to "has local changes"
Message-ID: <e06498070805170744l7ad213aeqb779b0c0381e1de4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805171102480.30431@racer>

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Is this user interface set on stone? I think we should reserve the right
>> to improve always.
>
> Umm.
>
> As has been mentioned, this is not a "user interface".  The message you
> are seeing comes from a _plumbing_ program, i.e. something _not_ meant for
> human consumption.
>
> I still think that it might be better to add a command line option with a
> custom message, because that would _not_ break backwards-compatibility.

With this dedication to backwards-compatibility, we'll be at Windows
Vista quality in no time.
-- 
-Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail.com>