Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Just as someone reading this from the sidelines, very nice to have > someone working this part of the UI, but it would be much easier to > review if you included before/after examples of changes, e.g. (for this > hypothetical change): > > > Before we'd say: > > # Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting > # with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit. > # > # Date: <date> > # > # On branch master > # Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. > > Now: > > # Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting > # with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit. > # > # Date: <date> > # > # On branch master > # Your current branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. > > And as a word-diff: > > [...] > # Your {+current+} branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. > > Or something like that, much easier to read something like that than > read the code and mentally glue together what it's going to change. I think you gave an example that is different from what was done on purpose, so that Kaartic can respond with "I see what you mean; what I did is different from your example but this.", but it seems that the attempt failed X-<. I do not think the patch changes the output in a situation where the above "Before" would be shown. Instead, when the extra "Date: <date>" (or "Author: <author>") is not shown, the Before picture would look like: # Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting # with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit. # On branch master and the update makes it look like: # Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting # with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit. # # On branch master Hope that helps.