Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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.
Thanks.
> 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-)
I think you added smiley because you already knew the answer, but if that
is not the case, please see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/81100/focus=82358
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