Pull vs push messages

> Hi all,
> 
> I noticed that git pull reports "Already up to date." but git push
> reports "Everything up-to-date".  (I'm using git 2.20.1, the latest in
> the Ubuntu repos.)  Just for a consistent user experience, would it be
> worth standardizing on:
> 
> Hyphenation (up-to-date vs up to date)?
> Periods at the end of one-sentence messages?
> Colloquialisms and tone of voice?  "Already up to date." sounds like a
> terse error message but "Everything up-to-date" sounds like a chatty
> friend.
> 
> Maybe none of this is worth the effort, but I thought I'd mention it
> just in case.

>
> On 2019-07-11 at 21:36:50, Michael Kielstra wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I noticed that git pull reports "Already up to date." but git push
> > reports "Everything up-to-date".  (I'm using git 2.20.1, the latest in
> > the Ubuntu repos.)  Just for a consistent user experience, would it be
> > worth standardizing on:
> >
> > Hyphenation (up-to-date vs up to date)?
> > Periods at the end of one-sentence messages?
> > Colloquialisms and tone of voice?  "Already up to date." sounds like a
> > terse error message but "Everything up-to-date" sounds like a chatty
> > friend.
>
> I'd be happy to review a patch that changes this, if you think it's
> worth changing. Generally the way things work here is that except for
> obvious bugs, people send patches for things they care about, and then
> other folks will review and make suggestions, or sometimes there won't
> be any interest in a change, and the patch is dropped.
>
> We'd probably want to standardize on "up to date", since that's the
> correct form here according to the Chicago Manual of Style, and drop the
> period, since this isn't a complete sentence.