[darcs-users] A mockup of an improved 'darcs -h'

Alec Berryman alec at thened.net
Mon Apr 25 13:51:47 UTC 2005


Albert Reiner on 2005-04-25 14:12:42 +0200:

> How many problems will it cause through not being easily greppable or
> on terminals that are not that wide etc..  But if it is to be rather
> condensed, what's wrong with
> 
>     Changeset Actions: record unrecord amend-record revert unrevert
>       pull unpull rollback push send apply replace
>     File Actions: add remove mv
>     ...?
> 
> Same information, even less room.

It's not as easy to pick out one item from that list as it is with
Mark's mockup.  I believe Mark's idea was to make the default help
useful to the semi-regular user of darcs rather than the beginner; the
semi-regular user most likely just needs to see the command for the
'ah-hah!' moment to set in.
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