Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I have mixed feelings with this change, even though I agree that the >> original is not good. The first sentence of the updated text >> already says that right now, the file ends with CRLF, and that the >> conversion happen the next time you check out the file to the >> working tree. And that makes "For now ... still" totally redundant. >> >> Perhaps a single sentence, nothing more than >> >> warning: in '%s', CRLF will be replaced by LF the next time >> you check it out >> >> is sufficient? I dunno. > > I like your idea to move the file name to the start of the message, > and I think that will address Ævar's concern as well. > > It doesn't matter to me whether the message is one sentence or two > sentences. If you have a slight preference for one sentence then let's > just do that. "For now" smelled like sending a wrong and/or confusing message. Is it "for now" until we update the software, and with future versions of Git, "git add" will pretend as if the user immediately checked it out? While I do not care too deeply between one and two sentences, getting rid of the seemingly redundant "For now" sentence will remove the source of such confusion, so ....
