2009/9/8 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: > I'll leave the exact wording up to other people. My primary focus was to > end all of these messages with "Aborting." > > This turns out to be a continuation of an older discussion thread back in > May 2008, and I do not know if anybody took up the challenge back then. I > wouldn't be surprised if "checkout", which was the topic of the old > thread, has some other scary plumbing message still seeping through to the > UI layer. Perhaps there are some other commands that needs similar kind > of love. Just a note that Documentation/git-checkout.txt references this message in an example and should be kept in step with the final wording change. It would be ideal to be able to regression-test the examples in the documentation somehow but that might involve abusing the asciidoc markup somewhat. 2009/9/8 Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>: > While we're picking apart your wording, is "clobbered" the word we want > to use? If we're debating 'clobbered', then maybe the non-word 'uptodate' is fair game too? 8-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html