From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 20:15:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] checkout: print something when checking out paths
Message-ID: <xmqqy39yyruz.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8BGgf0J=iKNc3qmz_rTMNdaPmR_1v+9i3nhGKcuOH4AFA@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> Another thing I'm going to change (if this v1 is in the right
> direction): print different messages for "git checkout -- foo" and
> "git checkout foo -- bar". The first one is "%d paths have been
> reverted" but the second one does different things and probably should
> say "%d paths have been updated from branch foo" or something like
> that.

I actually think that it is a bad idea to deliberately use such
misleading words like "revert", that will discourage users from
weaning themselves off of SVN.  "checked out N paths out of the
index", "checked out N paths out of the commit X" and "checked out N
paths out of branch B" would be clear enough and won't have such a
problem---otherwise you are encouraging them to make a mistake

	echo garbage >path
	... say oops ...
	git revert path