Re: legend on top-right pane in 'git gui'

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 10, 2009, 19:19 UTC
Message-ID: <slrngtv6tk.7aq.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>
In-Reply-To: <885649360904082111q31f1d90br8ee62eb4afba2611@mail.gmail.com>

On 2009-04-09, James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009, Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can someone at least tell me "Sita, you're wrong/this is a
>> stupid question/this is perfectly correct behaviour/whatever"?  :-)
>>
>> I won't even ask why, I promise :-)
>
> Well, I for one think your proposed new message - "untracked, not
> staged (partial)" - is nonsense.  A file can't be both untracked
> and partially staged.

Fine, some other wording may suit better; doesn't matter if you don't even agree that the message needs to be different.

> Also I don't agree that the message needs to be different
> depending on where you click; actually I think such behavior
> would be more confusing to users than the current behavior.

Right now, both panes say "Portions staged for commit".

In fact, while one pane does indeed show the portions staged for commit, the other one is actually showing portions *not* staged for commit. To some of my users, that is certainly confusing.

I guess confusion, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder...