On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:42 PM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
> David Glasser wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:52 PM, <cmpilato_at_tigris.org> wrote:
> >> Author: cmpilato
> >> Date: Fri Feb 22 12:52:02 2008
> >> New Revision: 29544
> >>
> >> Log:
> >> Poor man's long-option aliasing, introducing --cl as an alias for
> >> --changelist.
> >>
> >> * subversion/svn/main.c
> >> (svn_cl__options): Add --cl as a long-opt alias, and note this alias
> >> in --changelist's description.
> >>
> >> * subversion/libsvn_subr/opt.c
> >> (print_command_info, print_command_info2): Don't print options with
> >> NULL descriptions.
> >
> > Hmm, this man is a little too poor for me. If I'm looking for what an
> > option does, then I'm looking in the left column with everything else,
> > and am unlikely to notice the one option name that's in the right
> > column.
> >
> > Possible solutions, from most to least hacky:
> >
> > - Remove some of the spaces from the second line, so it looks like
> > --changelist ARG : operate only on members of changelist ARG
> > [alias: --cl ARG]
>
> Honestly, I think this makes the UI worse.
>
> A newbie to this functionality isn't going to be looking *only* on the
> left-hand side -- he'll be looking for something vaguely changelist related
> in the left, and then confirm his find (of --changelist) by reading the
> description on the right, where he'll see the alias text. I don't
> personally feel the need to change the way things are, especially as this
> isn't some kind of correctness matter.
I was thinking less of the case "Huh, I wonder what the option for
changelists is?" and more "Somebody told me to type 'svn ci --cl bla',
but I don't have any clue what --cl means, and it isn't listed with
the rest of the options."
> > - Make an opt_changelist_abbr like
> > {"cl", opt_changelist_abbr, 1, "same as --changelist ARG"}
> > and
> > #define CHANGELIST_OPTS opt_changelist, _optchangelist_abbr
> > and
> > s/opt_changelist/CHANGELIST_OPTS/ inside the subcommand table
> > and
> > make main treat the values as the same.
>
> As long as the options lists maintain their sort ordering on output, then
> this is fine with me. I wouldn't want to see the likes of:
>
> --changelist ARG ...
> --depth ARG ...
> --revision (-r) ARG ...
> --quiet (-q) ...
> --cl ARG ...
> --force ...
> ...
Yeah, I checked that the sorting would be OK.
--dave
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Received on 2008-02-26 22:51:09 CET