[darcs-users] darcs UI: send = bundle file; send --mail = mail

[Antoine Latter]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Eric Kow <eric.kow at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've pushed a patch to the screened (bleeding-edge) repository that changes the Darcs UI in the following way:
>
> * darcs send just generates a patch bundle (equivalent to darcs-2.8 send -O)
> * darcs send --mail by itself sends the bundle via sendmail (no file saved; equivalent to darcs-2.8 send)
> * darcs send --mail -O should ignores the --mail flag (likewise with -o) (the idea being that if you put --mail in your defaults, you can still override it)
>
> If this change is accepted, it will filter through to the Darcs 2.10 release. If you use darcs send to communicate patches with your team, it's worth making note of this change (the UI will remind you).
>
> The thinking behind this is a belief that people these days don't generally have a mailer properly configured on their computer (one that provides a sendmail) command, and a more useful workflow for such users is just for it to be convenient to create patch bundle files that they can email by hand.
>
> Basically darcs send (--mail) is great for users like me who use Darcs on a daily basis, but perhaps not so great for somebody who's just trying darcs out, or forced to use it to interact with their Darcs-using friends.  It'd be a really bad thing for them if darcs send were to succeed and mysteriously dump your patch into a blackhole (your improperly configured mailer's queue)
>

Couldn't we have a different command to spit out a patch-bundle
against our default upstream?

Or we could introduce a new command for folks that do have a mailer set up.

I don't use "darcs send" as much as I used to, but it was the entire
reason I got a mailer up and working on my laptop.

Antoine