[darcs-devel] [issue2089] replace --force UI is confusing

[Eric Kow]

Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> added the comment:

Hi Josh, Thanks for your nice mail. I'm glad Zooko isn't completely 
alone in liking Darcs in the Tahoe world ;-)

I agree that that replace --force can be confusing.  I'm not sure what 
we can do about this.

Josh suggests documentation, but we can guess that users typically do 
not read documentation so while it is a necessary step to make, it 
probably is not sufficient.

For us to make progress on this bug, we need some concrete discussion 
and suggestions on ways to make the effects of replace --force more 
self-evident.  One way is to increase the darcs chattiness :-/

For example:

Don't panic! I've changed all instances of 'foo' to 'bar'
so that darcs replace can token-replace them back into 'foo'
again.

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nosy: +twb
priority:  -> bug
title: Dear DARCSians -> replace --force UI is confusing
topic: +Documentation, UI

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