i completely agree with "lets keep options to a minimum" and i appreciate the comment "we shouldn't mind code complexity"
so .. might i suggest that -m be overloaded?? so both of these would work.. fossil commit -m ./file.txt would fossil commit -m "commit message" essentially -m <value> would first check to see if <value> resolves to a valid file, otherwise take <value> to be the comment text.. Daniel On 10/12/2009 1:58 PM, Jeremy Cowgar wrote: > Stephan Beal<sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Wilson, Ronald<rwils...@harris.com>wrote: >> >> >>> I like DRH's idea but I agree with others that a --comment-file|-M >>> feature is needed for integration applications. However, I think >>> --comment-file could be less verbose and -M is begging for caps-lock >>> confusion. I suggest --infile|-i COMMENT-FILE-NAME. >>> >>> >>> >> i apologize to all - i didn't mean to open up a can of worms. i'll wait on >> DRH's vote/veto, and commit (or not). If i do, i'll change it to --infile/-i >> unless there are strong objections. For those of you who want it now, the >> diff is in one of the previous posts. >> >> > I personally would be confused looking at just an option list: > > fossil commit [-m|--message commit-message] [-i|--infile filename] [...] > [file] > > Infile what? I wouldn't worry about --comment-file, it may seem a bit verbose > but who's going to use that directly? tools for clarity, but for users, they > would use -M (or whatever it winds up being). Actually, thinking about it, > I'd keep both -M and --commit-file. If they mess up and type fossil commit -M > "Commit Message" they will get an error: > > File 'Commit Message' could not be opened. > > Now, look at: > > fossil commit -m|--message commit-message] [-M|--message-file filename] [...] > [file] > > It makes sense with no further help information. > > Jeremy > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
