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Re: Standardization of messages - dot after the sentence

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Sep 8, 2015, 18:16 UTC
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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
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> sigo venit, vidit, dixit 05.09.2015 14:22:
>> I've found really "little bug" with dots in the git output.
>> 
>> $ git push
>> Everything up-to-date
>> 
>> git pull
>> Already up-to-date.
>> 
>> Could all phrases contain dots? :)
>> 
>
> In this case, also both messages mean the same but are phrased
> differently, which is suboptimal in more than one way.

I do not particularly care between these two commands, but I think "git pull" says the same "Already up-to-date" in two situations that are two quite different ones. That ambiguity bothers me a lot more.

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