On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 8:04 PM Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> wrote: > May be we can use "updates" instead of "touches" ? > > "In '%s', CRLF will be replaced by LF the next time Git updates it" Makes sense to me. > > Or may be > > "In '%s', CRLF will be replaced by LF the next time a `git checkout` updates it" > I believe we should stay away from the word "checkout" because it's neither accurate nor clear, for at least a couple of reasons: 1. We have long, in principle, been promoting the use of "git switch", and it's not obvious in a message like this one that this is considered to be equivalent. 2. Files can be touched/updated by other commands/processes, like "git pull" (and "rebase", and probably others I can't think of)
