Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > 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) >> >> But we can just more succinctly say: >> >> $ ~/g/git/git-status >> On branch master >> >> No commits yet >> >> 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. Neither do I. As long as we always say "On branch X", the end result would not make much difference with or without "on the branch" at the end of this line, I would think. Thanks.
