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Re: What does this output of git supposed to mean ?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 6, 2017, 11:52 UTC
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"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
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> From: "David" <bouncingcats@gmail.com>
>
>> Perhaps say something like "Repository is empty." there.
>
> <bikeshed>
> I like that. I think that is a very appropriately descriptive statement.
>
> An alternative ,with slightly less textual change, could be "Waiting
> for initial commit"
> </bikeshed>
I can buy that one.

I do not want to see "Repository is empty", as that will open us up to criticism that we are being sloppy and technically incorrect to cater to newbies (i.e. we will give the message if you do "checkout --orphan", and repository is definitely not empty in that case).

"Waiting for the initial commit", or "No commits yet", can be explained to describe the state of the current branch (not the state of the repository), and it is correct that we do not have any commit on the branch, and the branch is waiting for the initial commit.

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