[darcs-users] query manifest --directories default

Alan Bram alan.bram at oracle.com
Mon Jul 16 23:56:59 UTC 2007


> On 7/16/07, Eric Y. Kow <eric.kow at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How about this solution, then?
> > - switch the defaults
> > - rename 'query manifest' to 'query list'
> > - add a hidden alias from manifest to list with the current behaviour
> >   (for old timers)
> 
> I'd prefer to keep it ``query manifest``, with perhaps aliases for
> ``query list`` and/or ``query ls``.  I don't think ``query list`` is
> very informative in nature and seems, broadly speaking, just about as
> redundant as ``query query`` (``query ls`` makes a bit more sense due
> to it being a common unix tool name, but only by a slight margin).  In
> fact, I'm wondering if ``list`` might instead make a good alias for
> ``query`` itself:
> 
>   darcs list manifest
>   darcs list tags
>   ...
>   darcs list files
>   darcs list patches since 2005 from an author named "Wunderkind"
> ordered by number of files modified # darcs needs an NLP-style query
> language, right? :-P
>   darcs list celebratory wines  # just kidding
> 
> ``list`` and/or ``ls`` are bit kinder to type than ``query``, too.

Max, I think your proposal is truly beautiful.  I've always felt that
the name "query manifest" was a bit surprising.


Cheers,
 - arb



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