On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:43:33PM +0200, Eric Y. Kow wrote:
> Any objections in principle?
> 
> > Mon Aug 20 06:42:34 CEST 2007  Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >   * Distinguish between basic options and advanced options.
> > 
> > Mon Aug 20 07:07:06 CEST 2007  Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >   * Make some options advanced (e.g. --umask, --ignore-times).
> 
> Some disadvantages is that (i) it might remove some of the pressure to
> keep the flagset minimal [we might find ourselves burying things in
> advanced] and (ii) the distinction may be somewhat artificial.  But on
> the other hand, that help was getting unreadable. 

I think this is reasonable.  We might also add the non-advanced options to
the man page.  Or we might even want to make the man page have a separate
section for advanced options.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net

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