[darcs-users] wanted: darcs record --summary ?

[Daniel Burrows]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:24:45AM +0200, Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> was heard to say:
> On Monday 24 October 2005 22:38, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> > I'm interested to see if other users would like
> >
> > darcs record --summary
> >
> > This would show you the same output as "darcs whatsnews --summary",
> > and then give a prompt to record.
> >
> >  From there the user can step through them in detail as usual, or
> > record them all at once.
> >
> > This is a middle ground between "--interactive" and "--all" and is
> > sometimes all I need to know.
> 
> I find the 'f' button to OK all changes in a File to do that just as easy 
> and it does not force me to decide if I want to do files or patches based 
> ok-ing beforehand. (more features make usage harder for new users, you 
> know that, right?)

  I had the impression he meant just printing "whatsnew -s" output and
then running record as usual.  Not only would I also like this feature,
I've actually found myself trying to use it on several occasions :-).

  Patch attached.

  Daniel
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New patches:

[Allow the 'summary' option to be passed to record, and invoke 'whatsnew -s' before listing patches if it is present.
Daniel Burrows <dburrows at debian.org>**20051025163144] {
hunk ./Record.lhs 61
+import WhatsNew (whatsnew)
hunk ./Record.lhs 105
+                                               summary,
hunk ./Record.lhs 119
+    when (Summary `elem` opts) $
+         (command_command whatsnew) opts args
}

Context:

[give better error messages when cloning trees
David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net>**20051020124139
 Also make cloneSubTree ignore nonexistent objects.  I belive this solves
 the issue with bug #562.
] 
[fix html package inclusion in user manual
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[improve command-line help for put.
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[add warning to docs about inefficiency of put.
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[add the new put command to list in doc
Tommy Pettersson <ptp at lysator.liu.se>**20051013103518] 
[update documentation on matching ranges
Tommy Pettersson <ptp at lysator.liu.se>**20051012163804
 The matching patch at either end of a range is included in the output.
] 
[document DARCS_DONT_ESCAPE_TRAILING_CR
Tommy Pettersson <ptp at lysator.liu.se>**20051012140458] 
[fix typo
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[avoid duplicated code for constructing patch bundles in Push.
David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net>**20051011123752] 
[remove *.ko files from the default boring regexps.
David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net>**20051011131624
 They could be Korean translations rather than kernel modules.
] 
[add changelog entry for #544.
David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net>**20051009115143] 
[fix bug #544, caused by outputing changes --context with escaping and coloring.
David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net>**20051009114941] 
[add test for bug #544
David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net>**20051009114914] 
[bump version to 1.0.4rc2
Tommy Pettersson <ptp at lysator.liu.se>**20051010164926] 
[TAG 1.0.4rc1
Tommy Pettersson <ptp at lysator.liu.se>**20051008101653] 
Patch bundle hash:
30ecf5c6d060bd77493bd5cf178acd7d587e5b8c
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