Re: Bikeshed: --quiet option

Karl wrote:

> Actually, I think the rules are (or should be):
>
> * For a command which has no other effect besides printing
> information, "-q" means "speak softly", that is, just print less
> information. ...
>
> * For a command which has some non-printing effect, such as commit
> or update, "-q" should mean "silence is golden", and suppress all
> output. ...

Alexis wrote:

> > .... I point out that the behaviour of 'tar' is exactly what Karl
> > mentioned:
> >
> > tar t as a accessor is never totally silent but
> > it does have 'v' option to make it loud.
> >
> > tar [cx] are totally silent except when given the
> > 'v'

Greg wrote:

> ... tar is silent unless you explicitly tell it to be noisy.

No ... - as I said above - 'tar t' produces output without '-v'. Try
it.

> Karl was saying that Subversion mutator
> commands would be silent if given -q, but noisy by default.

Perhaps I was not as clear as I could have been:

I realise that Karl's 'logic' is reversed (i.e. the suggestion
that -q makes svn quiet instead of tar's -v making tar verbose),
and that obviously this implies a different default behaviour. But
the underlying philosophy is the same:

Sub-commands which you only run to produce output should never be
totally silencable, but sub-commands which you run for other reasons
*are* totally silencable.

Alexis

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Received on Fri Aug 2 18:03:33 2002