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

[Josef Svenningsson]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 17:41:45 +0100, Josef Svenningsson wrote:
>> >  - server commands - darcs transfer-mode in particular
>> >
>> I should perhaps clarify my general position a bit more here. The
>> problem is not in hiding commands, it is in hiding functionality.
>> Hiding aliases and stubs I don't see as a (big) problem. It is when
>> the user finds out that in order to achieve certain things he has to
>> delve into this secret cave of hidden functionality which is a
>> confusing thing. Therefore my personal preference would be for the
>> server commands not to be hidden. But since I don't use them (indeed I
>> didn't know about the transfer-mode command until now) I don't have
>> that strong an opinion in this particular case.
>
> Hmm, so in this case, the server command is only invoked by darcs on the
> client side.  We would not, for example, expect the user to call darcs
> transfer-mode herself.
>
> In light of that, would you still want it exposed? (just so people know
> it's there).
>
Ah, ok. No, it's fine for me to keep it hidden since we're not hiding
any functionality from the user.

> For what it's worth, this is one of the reasons we keep trying to push
> people into upgrading their servers to darcs 2.  It provides a sort of
> ssh connection sharing (via darcs transfer-mode)
>
Makes sense.

Cheers,

Josef