[darcs-users] darcs feature request --- quick addition to boring file

[Eric Kow]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 18:22:48 -0500, Norman Ramsey wrote:
> What I would consider reasonable is that there be a 
> 
>   darcs getpref
> 
> to balance darcs setpref.  It's a fundamental principle of design that
> when you offer an interface that mutates state, you should also offer
> a way to observe that state.

That's quite a fair request, one which I *think* the show repo command
fulfills.

>  > Does darcs show repo | grep boringfile help?
> 
> Not hardly:
> 
>   : nr at yorkie 699 ; darcs show repo
>             Type: darcs
>           Format: darcs-1.0
>             Root: /home/nr/cs/40/www/solutions/um
>         Pristine: PlainPristine "_darcs/pristine"
>            Cache: thisrepo:/home/nr/cs/40/www/solutions/um
>      Num Patches: 88
>   : nr at yorkie 700 ; darcs -v
>   2.0.2 (release)

Ah, my understanding here is that show repo does not print out any
prefs which are unset, which makes me think than an (unfortunately
more elaborate) way to go might be:

  (darcs show repo | grep boringfile) || echo _darcs/prefs/boring

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Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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