Re: [Monotone-devel] nvm.options

[Stephen Leake]

Timothy Brownawell <address@hidden> writes:

> On 08/10/2010 12:31 PM, Derek Scherger wrote:
>> Sorry, I've been away and I'm late to the party on this but I'm not sure
>> I like the --verbosity, --quiet, --debug and --reallyquiet options all
>> that much.
>> What about this as an alternative:
>>
>> - default verbosity is 0  as described above
>> - verbosity can by increased with --verbose (-v) options: -v -v or -vv
>> would set verbosity to 2
>> - verbosity can be decreased with --quiet (-q) options: -q -q or -qq
>> would set verbosity to -2
>> - remove --debug, --reallyquiet and --verbosity in favour of multiple -v
>> or -q options?
>
> I basically like it, except you never know where you are. That is, if
> someone has their defaults set to "-q" or "-q -q", any frontend they
> use needs to be able to turn warnings and progress output back on
> without enabling debug output, or turn warnings back on without
> enabling progress output, etc.

You could do "-q -q -q -q" to guarantee verbosity is at -2, then add the
desired number of "-v".

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