[darcs-users] Send "darcs help" output to STDOUT
David Roundy
droundy at abridgegame.org
Sat Apr 2 20:52:00 UTC 2005
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 08:03:11PM +0200, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:00:12PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > B) Go one step further and make the usage information *always* go to
> > STDOUT even for "darcs wifflebingbobwoo" because in this case there's
> > nothing on STDOUT anyway.
>
> but not this! There nothing on STDOUT on purpuse! Would you like darcs
> to finish with exit code 0 too?
Indeed, we must consider the case where darcs is called from within a
script, or some other situation where stdout isn't apparent to the user.
What might help would be to shorten the message when a command is mistyped
so the user can see the whole message:
$darcs wifflebingbobwoo
darcs failed: Invalid command 'wifflebingbobwoo'!
Try darcs --help to see a list of valid commands.
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David Roundy
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