Re: Pull vs push messages

["Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>]

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