From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>, Knittl <knittl89@googlemail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH re-roll] Do not display 'Switched to a new branch' when the branch existed
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:38:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v4oer8paz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7voccz8wo8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed\, 18 Aug 2010 13\:59\:03 -0700")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> The functionality of your patch is obviously good. Thanks.
>
> In what way is it good? I am especially worried about the word "reset"
> being confusing.
>
> You are switching to a new context to work on something else, so I don't
> necessarily think it is confusing that the word "new branch" in this
> message does not mean "a branch that did not exist before this operation
> (i.e. a newly created branch)."
Ahh, please disregard the above; I somehow failed to see that this is only
in the "-b/-B" codepath. Sorry for the noise.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-18 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-18 8:28 [PATCH] Do not display 'Switched to a new branch' when the branch existed Knittl
2010-08-18 8:38 ` [PATCH re-roll] " Knittl
2010-08-18 9:16 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-18 13:39 ` Tay Ray Chuan
[not found] ` <AANLkTimU75krdgQFvw0fEvAPqJb-eKaPXHg_5Hv2A8wh@mail.gmail.com>
2010-08-19 3:21 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-08-24 6:50 ` Knittl
2010-08-24 13:06 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-08-25 11:51 ` Knittl
2010-08-18 20:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-18 23:38 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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