[darcs-users] cvs -n update vs. darcs pull --dry-run

David Roundy droundy at abridgegame.org
Fri Oct 15 11:24:44 UTC 2004


On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 02:33:56AM +0000, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> With CVS, it's nice to have this command to see what an 'update' would
> do without actually running it:
> 
> cvs -n update 
> 
> darcs has something like this:
> 
> darcs pull --dry-run
> 
> Generally, I much prefer to see the patch names that darcs shows, rather
> than the terse file status notes that CVS uses.
> 
> However, sometimes seeing the file names affected is very useful. Based
> on whether there are upstream changes in a file you are working on, you
> may want to apply the patch sooner (or later). 
> 
> Is there a way with darcs to do something like 'darcs pull --dry-run',
> but also see the affected files? I tried adding "--verbose", but that
> didn't do it.

I've added a --summary option to display a summary of each patch's changes
along with the patch name.  I also made --verbose give the same
information, but it also gives the same other information as it used to.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org




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