On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 05:10 -0400, Jeff King wrote: > On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 10:34:59AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > wrote: > > > Why not simply "No commits yet", saying "on the branch" is > > needlessy > > duplicating information in the context of the status output in > > which > > this is printed, i.e. now you have: > > > > $ ~/g/git/git-status > > On branch master > > > > No commits yet on the branch > > > > nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to > > track) > > Since we've already pointed out that the user is on a branch. > > I thought one of the points was to disambiguate the case of "no > commits > yet in the repository" and "no commits yet on the branch". If we > don't > care about making that distinction (or think that the mention of the > branch is enough to make it clear), then succinct is fine. I don't > have > a strong opinion either way. > I had the same thought in the beginning but the sample output seemed to make me think "The terse message was fine". I am unopinionated, too. I'll stay with "No commits yet" for now until someone suggests to change it due to confusion about whether it's a "No commits yet on the branch" or it's a "No commits yet on this repository". -- Regards, Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@xxxxxxxxx>