Karl Fogel <kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net> writes:
> Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > > I think CVS uses -q and -Q for "speak softly" and "silence is golden"
> > > respectively. I'd be pleased if we supported the same.
> >
> > This sounds good to me. I have it ready to commit; I'll assume that you
> > and I are both +1 on it. Karl, are you at worst -0 on it? (Since you
> > suggested something different.)
>
> Er, hmmm. I'd like to be -1 until we at least hear someone who wants
> (i.e., has a real-life use case for) a behavior other than the one I
> described in my previous mail.
>
> The justification is merely that we should save short options.
>
> I'm also not sure that Mike is really +1 on this, since he posted that
> before reading my mail proposing the other interpretation. Mike?
I probably lean more toward Karl's approach. If -Q means "tell me
nothing" then I can accompish that with '> /dev/null' (or '> nil' on
Windows). I think we could just make -q mean *something* on a
per-subcommand basis, documenting such in the usage messages:
status -- doesn't show unversioned things
commit -- only shows new revision line
update -- only shows "updated to" line (and maybe conflicts?)
checkout -- only shows "checked out" line
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Received on Thu Aug 1 21:35:14 2002