On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:10:14PM +0100, Eric Y. Kow wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 19:06:59 +0100, Tommy Pettersson wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 06:14:47AM -0800, David Roundy wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:32:56PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > Mon Dec 18 21:32:01 CET 2006  Tommy Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >   * add warning about ALL and obliterate --all to documentation
> 
> > +Note that the use of \verb|ALL| easily can have unpredicted consequences,
> > +especially if commands in newer versions of darcs accepts flags that they
> > +didn't in previous versions. A command like \verb|obliterate| could be
> > +devastating with the ``wrong'' flags (for example --all). Only use safe
> > +flags with \verb|ALL|.
> 
> Another thought... maybe it is worth explicitly forbidding certain
> particularly tempting and dangerous combinations (ALL all) in the
> default mechanism?

You mean with a nice error message? Or a warning? I'd rather not do it
silently, but a nice error saying that the darcs developers think this is a
bad idea (and why) would be reasonable.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net

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