[darcs-users] darcs patch: Hide the inefficient "darcs put" command.

Florent Becker florent.becker at ens-lyon.org
Fri Dec 5 15:59:48 UTC 2008


>
>> >> Despite its warts I think put should stay and remain documented. It
>> >> fills a small but important niche.
>> >
>> > I suggested hiding it as a compromise.
>> > Note that "darcs put --help" will still work.
>> >
>> Hiding information is a very poor (but sadly rather common) way to try
>> to improve user interfaces. If we decide that put is not sufficiently
>> important (despite my screaming and kicking) I think it should be
>> removed altogether. Having a class of secret, half-hidden commands is
>> only going to confuse users in the end.
>
> There are already hidden commands.

Which are ugly hacks.



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