On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 01:43:55PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > > An alternative ,with slightly less textual change, could be "Waiting for > > initial commit" > > </bikeshed> > > We should consider orphan/unborn branches, too: > > git (master)$ git checkout --orphan newroot > Switched to a new branch 'newroot' > git (newroot +)$ git reset --hard > git (newroot #)$ git status > On branch newroot > > Initial commit > > nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track) > > A purely textual change will not be sufficient, I'm afraid. Saying > "Repository is empty" right after 'git init' is fine, I like it. > However, on an unborn branch with empty index it would be just wrong. > > "Waiting for initial commit" is much better even in this case, but I > still don't like that "initial", though I can't say why, and don't > have any better suggestion either. Though users experienced enough to > create an empty unborn branch would probably not be confused by that. I agree. If the state we are describing is limited to the current branch, how about saying so? Like "Your current branch has no commits". -Peff