[darcs-users] Command overview in user manual

Nathan Gray kolibrie at graystudios.org
Wed Nov 2 13:49:11 UTC 2005


On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 09:39:42AM -0400, David Roundy wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:13:17PM -0500, Donald J Bindner wrote:
> > Affects     patches    working directory
> > =======     =======    =================
> > record      yes        no
> > unrecord    yes        no
> > rollback    yes        no
> > -------     -------    -----------------
> > revert      no         yes
> > unrevert    no         yes
> > -------     -------    -----------------
> > apply       yes        yes
> > pull        yes        yes
> > unpull      yes        yes
> > -------     -------    -----------------
> > push(6.1)   no         no
> > send(6.2)   no         no
> > put(6.3)    no         no
> > -------     -------    -----------------
> > 
> > Obviously the grouping I'm going for here is
> >  - commands that only affect the patches
> >  - commands that only affect the working directory
> >  - commands that affect both
> >  - commands that affect neither
> 
> I think perhaps the current order is intended to loosely place the most
> common commands first.  But it isn't really successful, so unless someone
> objects, I'll accept a patch to modify the manual to reflect your
> ordering.

I like it.  The groupings really help to clarify which commands are
needed to perform a required operation.

-kolibrie




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