Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Contextually notify user about an initial commit

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 21:29:17 -0700

Kaartic Sivaraam <[email-masked]> writes:

> A few alternatives considered were,
>
> * Waiting for initial commit
> * Your current branch does not have any commits
> * Current branch waiting for initial commit
>

... "Decided to take the most succinct one." or something to
conclude what happend to these alternatives would be nice to spell
out as a conclusion here.

> Patch-derived-from: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>

That's just "Helped-by:".

> Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <[email-masked]>
> ---
>   Hope this would be final :)
>
>  builtin/commit.c | 1 +
>  wt-status.c      | 5 ++++-
>  wt-status.h      | 1 +
>  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks.  
Have you run the full test suite after applying this patch?

Adjustment to existing tests to update their expectation would be a
good thing to have in this patch that would easily illustaret what
will change and how.

At least this would be needed; there may be other breakages.

diff --git a/t/t7501-commit.sh b/t/t7501-commit.sh
index 0b6da7ae1f..fa61b1a4ee 100755
--- a/t/t7501-commit.sh
+++ b/t/t7501-commit.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ test_expect_success 'initial status' '
 	echo bongo bongo >file &&
 	git add file &&
 	git status >actual &&
-	test_i18ngrep "Initial commit" actual
+	test_i18ngrep "No commits yet" actual
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'fail initial amend' '