On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:48:21AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "git update-index --refresh", "git reset" and "git add --refresh" have
> reported paths that have local modifications as "needs update" since the
> beginning of git.
>
> Although this is logically correct in that you need to update the index at
> that path before you can commit that change, it is now becoming more and
> more clear, especially with the continuous push for user friendliness
> since 1.5.0 series, that the message is suboptimal. After all, the change
> may be something the user might want to get rid of, and "updating" would
> be absolutely a wrong thing to do if that is the case.
>
> I prepared two alternatives to solve this. Both aim to reword the message
> to more neutral "locally modified".
>
> This patch is a more straightforward variant that changes the message not
> only for Porcelain commands ("add" and "reset") but also changes the
> output from the plumbing command "update-index".
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
I believe this is a good thing. Scripts need to be modified for the
reorganization anyway, and I'm not sure if there are any actually
depening on this particular string. I think having inconsistent error
messaging is worse in long term.
FWIW, looking at Cogito,
cg-Xlib: git-update-index --refresh | sed 's/needs update$/locally modified/'
is the only reference to this. ;-)
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