Pull vs push messages

Pull vs push messages

[Michael Kielstra]

Hi all,

I noticed that git pull reports "Already up to date." but git push
reports "Everything up-to-date".  (I'm using git 2.20.1, the latest in
the Ubuntu repos.)  Just for a consistent user experience, would it be
worth standardizing on:

Hyphenation (up-to-date vs up to date)?
Periods at the end of one-sentence messages?
Colloquialisms and tone of voice?  "Already up to date." sounds like a
terse error message but "Everything up-to-date" sounds like a chatty
friend.

Maybe none of this is worth the effort, but I thought I'd mention it
just in case.

Michael Kielstra

Re: Pull vs push messages

[brian m. carlson]

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On 2019-07-11 at 21:36:50, Michael Kielstra wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I noticed that git pull reports "Already up to date." but git push
> reports "Everything up-to-date".  (I'm using git 2.20.1, the latest in
> the Ubuntu repos.)  Just for a consistent user experience, would it be
> worth standardizing on:
> 
> Hyphenation (up-to-date vs up to date)?
> Periods at the end of one-sentence messages?
> Colloquialisms and tone of voice?  "Already up to date." sounds like a
> terse error message but "Everything up-to-date" sounds like a chatty
> friend.
> 
> Maybe none of this is worth the effort, but I thought I'd mention it
> just in case.

I'd be happy to review a patch that changes this, if you think it's
worth changing. Generally the way things work here is that except for
obvious bugs, people send patches for things they care about, and then
other folks will review and make suggestions, or sometimes there won't
be any interest in a change, and the patch is dropped.

We'd probably want to standardize on "up to date", since that's the
correct form here according to the Chicago Manual of Style, and drop the
period, since this isn't a complete sentence.
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brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
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Re: Pull vs push messages

[Martin Ågren]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 at 00:16, brian m. carlson
<sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
>
> On 2019-07-11 at 21:36:50, Michael Kielstra wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I noticed that git pull reports "Already up to date." but git push
> > reports "Everything up-to-date".  (I'm using git 2.20.1, the latest in
> > the Ubuntu repos.)  Just for a consistent user experience, would it be
> > worth standardizing on:
> >
> > Hyphenation (up-to-date vs up to date)?
> > Periods at the end of one-sentence messages?
> > Colloquialisms and tone of voice?  "Already up to date." sounds like a
> > terse error message but "Everything up-to-date" sounds like a chatty
> > friend.
>
> I'd be happy to review a patch that changes this, if you think it's
> worth changing. Generally the way things work here is that except for
> obvious bugs, people send patches for things they care about, and then
> other folks will review and make suggestions, or sometimes there won't
> be any interest in a change, and the patch is dropped.
>
> We'd probably want to standardize on "up to date", since that's the
> correct form here according to the Chicago Manual of Style, and drop the
> period, since this isn't a complete sentence.

There's 7560f547e6 ('treewide: correct several "up-to-date" to "up to
date"', 2017-08-23), which changed a few of these, but also explains why
it leaves "Everything up-to-date" unchanged. Whether that assessment is
the One True Way now 2 years later, I'm not the right person to say.

Michael, you can perhaps find some discussion leading up to / about that
patch on https://public-archive.org/git/

Martin