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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