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[Monotone-devel] Why?
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Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker |
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[Monotone-devel] Why? |
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Mon, 30 May 2005 17:12:14 +0200 (CEST) |
I've a couple of gripes that I need to share:
1. 'monotone update' still takes an optional argument. Is there any
reason why it doesn't use --revision like all the others? If noone
minds a change to using --revision, I've a change ready to be
commited.
2. Why on earth does everyone insist on putting all those random
[--revision=REVISION] and other options in the arguments help for
the command when those options are already explained above the
command help? The commands currently having that kind of extra
garbage are 'log', 'checkout', 'diff' and 'cdiff'. I could
understand it for those taking two --revision, but honestly, I
think the help on --revision should be extended to say this is
possible. However, for a command like 'checkout', it's just plain
silly:
: ; ./monotone checkout --help
Usage: monotone [OPTION...] command [ARGS...]
[...]
Options specific to 'monotone checkout':
-b, --branch=STRING select branch cert for operation
-r, --revision=STRING select revision id for operation
checkout [--revision=REVISION] [DIRECTORY]
check out revision from database into directory
I'd like to change it to look like this:
: ; ./monotone checkout --help
Usage: monotone [OPTION...] command [ARGS...]
[...]
Options specific to 'monotone checkout':
-b, --branch=STRING select branch cert for operation
-r, --revision=STRING select revision id for operation
checkout [DIRECTORY]
check out revision from database into directory
: ; ./monotone log --help
Usage: monotone [OPTION...] command [ARGS...]
[...]
Options specific to 'monotone log':
-r, --revision=STRING select revision id for operation
--last=LONG limit the log output to the given number of
entries
--brief print a brief version of the normal output
log [file]
print history in reverse order (filtering by 'file'). If one or
more revisions
are given, use them as a starting point.
Opinions?
Cheers,
Richard
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