[darcs-devel] darcs patch: Add -i as an alias for --interactive.

Zachary P. Landau kapheine at gmail.com
Fri Mar 3 17:27:10 PST 2006


On 3/3/06, Tommy Pettersson <ptp at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 02:26:35PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > > Does anyone have a problem with this patch?
> >
> > > Thu Mar  2 13:46:40 EST 2006  Zachary P. Landau <kapheine at divineinvasion.net>
> > >   * Add -i as an alias for --interactive.
> >
> > I would tend to be in favour of this.  Does anyone see any other flags
> > that we might want to save ``-i'' for?
>
> 'ignore', 'insensitive' and 'inverse/invert' seems to be general
> enough to be global across commands and somewhat frequently used
> but invocation dependent (not set only once in the defaults
> file).
>
> Sometimes I've wanted --patch (and --match) to be case
> insensitive, which is -i in at least grep. I don't know what
> 'ignore' and 'inverse/invert' would do, they just seemed i-ish
> so I thought I'd mention them.
>
> I think I would rather put --interactive in defaults and toggle
> --ignore-case with -i.

What about using -I for interactive?  I'm not sure if we want to
go there or not.  My fear will always be that darcs will turn into
'ls' or 'nethack' where there aren't enough variations of letters in
the alphabet to do everything that is possible.

The only problem I have with putting interactive in my preferences
is that I seem to use changes and changes --interactive roughly
the same amount.

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Zachary P. Landau <kapheine at gmail.com>




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