[darcs-users] make `darcs changes` interactive by default?

Florent Becker florent.becker at ens-lyon.org
Wed Nov 20 18:31:34 UTC 2013


On 20/11/2013 00:07, Guillaume Hoffmann wrote:
> I'm thinking more and more that darcs should have a behaviour similar
> to the most known VCS', unless there is some *absolute* necessity (by
> design or design principle) to do another way.
>
> The default expected use of changes (or log) is to show the "history"
> of a repository, and we cannot really fight this assumption.
>
> So I propose we go back to non-interactive by default.
>
> As of invoking the pager (a la git), good idea. We can indeed use the
> same code as `darcs help`.
>
> And to continue with the "least surprise" principle, I would go as far
> as proposing that "changes" should be called "log" (an alias already
> present in HEAD), and keep "changes" as an alias of "log".

I like this, but making "changes" an alias for "darcs log -i", thus 
avoiding disruption for old-time darcsers.

--
Florent



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