Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Given our desire to save on single-letter options, I think the four
> choices are:
>
> * Get rid of -q for all mutators (it would retain its meaning in "svn
> st", which is the only accessor to currently use it). Tell people
> to redirect to /dev/null for "silence is golden". Decide nobody
> wants to see just the "revision N" messages. (Favored by Scott
> Lamb.)
>
> * Make -q "silence is golden" for mutators. Decide nobody wants to
> see just the "revision N" messages. (Favored by Karl, and also by
> me.)
>
> * Make -q "speak softly" for mutators, displaying only the revision N
> message. For "silence is golden", you have to redirect to
> /dev/null.
>
> * Make -q "speak softly" for mutators, and -q -q "silence is
> golden". (Suggested by William Uther.)
>
> That's basically the matrix of the two orthogonal questions "should we
> provide a simple way for scripts to get silent behavior from mutators?"
> and "should we provide a way to see only the revision N messages from
> mutators?".
>
> I would like to see a "silence is golden" option, because I think that
> noisy mutator commands should be somewhat apologetic about it, which
> means providing a nice pretty option to turn off the noise. But I'm
> happy to implement any consensus which makes the situation more
> consistent than it is.
Alright, I'm convinced. I'll take Karl's approach. -q is the only
option, and it means "speak softly" for accessors and "silence is
golden" for mutators.
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Received on Fri Aug 2 17:53:40 2002