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Re: [PATCH] wt-status.c: Modified status message shown for a parent-less branch

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 12, 2017, 18:28 UTC
Message-ID
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Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> writes:
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>> Adding a bit to "struct wt_status" is a good first step to allow all
>> three (i.e. in addition to "Initial commit" and "Changes to be
>> committed", "Changes not staged for commit" is the other one that
>> shares this potential confusion factor) to be phrased in a way that
>> is more appropriate in an answer to the question "what is the status
>> of my working area?", I would think.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
> It seems that the current change has to be discarded altogether and
> further the change required doesn't look trivial. This seems to warrant
> some bit of research of the code base. As a first step I would like to
> know which part of the code base creates the commit template. I guess
> much can't be done without knowing how it's created.

Perhaps something along this line (warning: not even compile tested)?

 builtin/commit.c |  1 +
 wt-status.c      | 15 ++++++++++++---
 wt-status.h      |  1 +
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index da1ba4c862..ffb2d71d3d 100644
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -1652,6 +1652,7 @@ int cmd_commit(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		usage_with_options(builtin_commit_usage, builtin_commit_options);
 
 	status_init_config(&s, git_commit_config);
+	s.commit_template = 1;
 	status_format = STATUS_FORMAT_NONE; /* Ignore status.short */
 	s.colopts = 0;
 
diff --git a/wt-status.c b/wt-status.c
index 25aafc35c8..006aaf9e76 100644
--- a/wt-status.c
+++ b/wt-status.c
@@ -196,7 +196,10 @@ static void wt_longstatus_print_cached_header(struct wt_status *s)
 {
 	const char *c = color(WT_STATUS_HEADER, s);
 
-	status_printf_ln(s, c, _("Changes to be committed:"));
+	if (s->commit_template)
+		status_printf_ln(s, c, _("Changes to be committed:"));
+	else
+		status_printf_ln(s, c, _("Changes already in the index:"));
 	if (!s->hints)
 		return;
 	if (s->whence != FROM_COMMIT)
@@ -214,7 +217,10 @@ static void wt_longstatus_print_dirty_header(struct wt_status *s,
 {
 	const char *c = color(WT_STATUS_HEADER, s);
 
-	status_printf_ln(s, c, _("Changes not staged for commit:"));
+	if (s->commit_template)
+		status_printf_ln(s, c, _("Changes not staged for commit:"));
+	else
+		status_printf_ln(s, c, _("Changes not yet in the index:"));
 	if (!s->hints)
 		return;
 	if (!has_deleted)
@@ -1578,7 +1584,10 @@ static void wt_longstatus_print(struct wt_status *s)
 
 	if (s->is_initial) {
 		status_printf_ln(s, color(WT_STATUS_HEADER, s), "%s", "");
-		status_printf_ln(s, color(WT_STATUS_HEADER, s), _("Initial commit"));
+		status_printf_ln(s, color(WT_STATUS_HEADER, s),
+				 s->commit_template
+				 ? _("Initial commit")
+				 : _("No commit yet on the branch"));
 		status_printf_ln(s, color(WT_STATUS_HEADER, s), "%s", "");
 	}
 
diff --git a/wt-status.h b/wt-status.h
index 8a3864783b..17f72f2346 100644
--- a/wt-status.h
+++ b/wt-status.h
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ struct wt_status {
 	unsigned colopts;
 	int null_termination;
 	int show_branch;
+	int commit_template;
 	int hints;
 
 	enum wt_status_format status_format;
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Message 9 of 48 in “wt-status.c: Modified status message shown for a parent-less branch”
  1. wt-status.c: Modified status message shown for a parent-less branchKaartic Sivaraam, Jun 10, 2017
  2. Kaartic SivaraamJun 10, 2017
  3. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2017
  4. Kaartic SivaraamJun 10, 2017
  5. Kaartic SivaraamJun 10, 2017
  6. Jeff KingJun 10, 2017
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2017
  8. Kaartic SivaraamJun 12, 2017
  9. Junio C HamanoJun 12, 2017
  10. Jeff KingJun 12, 2017
  11. Junio C HamanoJun 12, 2017
  12. Jeff KingJun 12, 2017
  13. Kaartic SivaraamJun 15, 2017
  14. Jeff KingJun 15, 2017
  15. Samuel LijinJun 15, 2017
  16. Jeff KingJun 15, 2017
  17. Kaartic SivaraamJun 16, 2017
  18. Jeff KingJun 16, 2017
  19. Kaartic SivaraamJun 18, 2017
  20. Contextually notify user about an initial commitKaartic Sivaraam, Jun 18, 2017
  21. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 18, 2017
  22. 1/2 Contextually notify user about an initial commitKaartic Sivaraam, Jun 19, 2017
  23. 2/2 Add test for the new status messageKaartic Sivaraam, Jun 19, 2017
  24. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2017
  25. Kaartic SivaraamJun 19, 2017
  26. Jeff KingJun 19, 2017
  27. Kaartic SivaraamJun 19, 2017
  28. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2017
  29. 2/2 Add test for the new status messageKaartic Sivaraam, Jun 19, 2017
  30. Jeff KingJun 19, 2017
  31. Kaartic SivaraamJun 19, 2017
  32. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2017
  33. 1/3 Contextually notify user about an initial commitKaartic Sivaraam, Jun 20, 2017
  34. 2/3 Update test(s) that used old status messageKaartic Sivaraam, Jun 20, 2017
  35. 3/3 Add tests for the contextual initial status messageKaartic Sivaraam, Jun 20, 2017
  36. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 20, 2017
  37. Kaartic SivaraamJun 20, 2017
  38. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 20, 2017
  39. Kaartic SivaraamJun 21, 2017
  40. status: contextually notify user about an initial commitKaartic Sivaraam, Jun 21, 2017
  41. Kaartic SivaraamJun 21, 2017
  42. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 21, 2017
  43. Kaartic SivaraamJun 21, 2017
  44. Junio C HamanoJun 21, 2017
  45. status: contextually notify user about an initial commitKaartic Sivaraam, Jun 21, 2017
  46. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2017
  47. Kaartic SivaraamJun 22, 2017
  48. Philip OakleyJun 10, 2017

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