Re: [Monotone-devel] [bug #29576] mtn tries to rewrite options file every time

[Thomas Keller]

Am 18.04.10 00:48, schrieb Derek Scherger:
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Thomas Keller <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>>
>> This is only partially a problem of the hook. The options system simply
>> has no general code to accept --no-<something> options which would
>> switch the default of the --<something> value to the opposite.
>>
> 
> Allowing a general --no-foo for each boolean option --foo would probably be
> a good thing though. It would be nice if any early --no-files option could
> be overridden by a later --files option. Ditto for --no-merges --no-graph,
> etc. This may not make sense for every boolean option that we have, but it
> would for many of them.

Yes, it would make a lot of sense, but I'm not the man for hacking
around in the options code - this is still largely beyond me - Tim?! ;)

Thomas.

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