[darcs-devel] [issue1734] ability to revert during record interactive UI

[Mark Stosberg]

Mark Stosberg <mark at summersault.com> added the comment:

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:09:31 +0000
Reinier Lamers <bugs at darcs.net> wrote:

> 
> Reinier Lamers <reinier.lamers at gmail.com> added the comment:
> 
> Just let me add that I am strongly against this feature (and all other
> of the "I want to X while Y'ing" kind). There's a reason that "darcs
> record" is "darcs record" and not "darcs revert". If we build
> shortcuts to other darcs commands into the interactive prompts for
> commands, that's going to be a huge amount of UI clutter. It also
> breaks the property that a record does not change your working copy,
> thus making darcs less predictable.

Despite have recently expressed that I'd like to edit files while in
record, Reiner's comments ring true with me.

While doing two steps (record than revert) can be slower, it's also
arguably simpler, and I do appreciate darc's simplicity, and I realize
that sometimes to preserve we have to resist adding features that we
would sometimes use when the same thing can be accomplished with
multiple steps with existing simpler tools. 

   Mark

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