Re: [Monotone-devel] nvm.options

[Stephen Leake]

Thomas Keller <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 05.08.10 15:40, schrieb Stephen Leake:
>> We added a 'deprecate option' mechanism.
>> 
>> Deprecated options don't show up in help, even with --hidden.
>> 
>> So far, the only option we've deprecated is --full, replaced by
>> --verbose. That's simple enough.
>> 
>> But I can imagine a case where someone needs to see the help for the
>> deprecated option in order to figure out how to use the replacement
>> option. 
>> 
>> So perhaps --hidden should show the deprecated options? or some new
>> option --show-deprecated?
>
> What about documenting the deprecated options and their replacements in
> monotone.texi? Just showing them again won't help the user much and it
> would just introduce new "meta" code we don't want to care about much.

That works.

>> Similarly, we should have deprecated commands (not in this branch). For
>> example, privkey, pubkey, read are apparently deprecated now.
>
> I second the request to introduce that and it might become even more
> needed when we hit 1.0, so we still provide backwards compatiblity. 

These could also remain in monotone.texi, marked as deprecated.

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