[darcs-devel] [issue1222] darcs send --no-deps documentation is misleading

Trent W. Buck bugs at darcs.net
Mon Nov 30 07:17:40 UTC 2009


Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com> added the comment:

Miklos Vajna wrote:
> It seems [darcs send] --no-deps is not about "don't automatically
> fulfill dependencies" (according to the doc), but about "if you select
> foo and it depends on bar, then don't include foo, either".
> 
> See
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.user/15569/focus=15596
> for more context.

Sorry for the delay.  The documentation Miklos is referring to is the
short option string (seen with "darcs send --help").

Due to the way these option "short strings" are currently implemented,
the string has to be the same for ALL commands that use --no-deps.
Whatever I change it to, must make sense for pull, push, obliterate,
unrecord AND send.

Since I don't use --no-deps myself, I'll have to spend some time
grokking its meaning (in all those commands) before I can prepare a
patch.  This won't happen soon, because I consider this to be a
low-priority issue.

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