[darcs-users] query manifest --directories default

[Max Battcher]

On 7/16/07, Eric Y. Kow <eric.kow at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about this solution, then?
> - switch the defaults
> - rename 'query manifest' to 'query list'
> - add a hidden alias from manifest to list with the current behaviour
>   (for old timers)

I'd prefer to keep it ``query manifest``, with perhaps aliases for
``query list`` and/or ``query ls``.  I don't think ``query list`` is
very informative in nature and seems, broadly speaking, just about as
redundant as ``query query`` (``query ls`` makes a bit more sense due
to it being a common unix tool name, but only by a slight margin).  In
fact, I'm wondering if ``list`` might instead make a good alias for
``query`` itself:

  darcs list manifest
  darcs list tags
  ...
  darcs list files
  darcs list patches since 2005 from an author named "Wunderkind"
ordered by number of files modified # darcs needs an NLP-style query
language, right? :-P
  darcs list celebratory wines  # just kidding

``list`` and/or ``ls`` are bit kinder to type than ``query``, too.

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