[darcs-users] dangerous options
Ketil Malde
ketil.malde at bccs.uib.no
Mon Feb 28 09:58:09 UTC 2005
Hi all,
As a good darcs evangelist, I've convinced a colleague to use darcs.
He recently discovered an unfortunate issue, wanting:
darcs rec --all
he accidentally typed
darcs rec -all
Like many of us, he hadn't been overly conscientous in maintaining his
boring file, and thus he got tons of auto-generated junk silently
polluting his repository.
I'm not sure how this can best be solved in general. Some suggestions
for this specific case could be
* disallow the combination of -l and -a
* warn/confirm when duplicate options are specified
* warn/confirm when the single-dash options also match a long option
* provide a way to disable -l (which many choose not to use)
I'm not terribly happy with any of these, but I think the lack of a
single dash an all too easy way to get repo pollution.
-kzm
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