New submission from Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I just realised that my recent troubles with darcs may have been due to an error code id-10-t (i.e. the problem was between the chair and the keyboard). I had messed up the darcs defaults syntax horribly, treating it as a sort of command line than what it really is.
My issue was that I was writing them like this (BAD): send --edit-description --unified --sendmail-command="mstmp -t %<" when in fact, I should have been writing them like this (GOOD): send edit-description send unified send sendmail-command="mstmp -t %<" Argh, silly eric. But maybe there is a chance to learn something here. The reason I persisted in using the wrong syntax is that I was reinforced by darcs seeming to work and do the right thing. Particularly, if I entered send --edit-description --unified darcs would appear to "work" (I would get a text editor before sending a patch). Of course, the patch would not be unified and I wouldn't notice, except for an occasional remark by Tommy and me being generally confused. The only thing that got me to realise my blunder was noticing that for some reason send --unified --edit-description did NOT "work" Because in both cases, darcs just ignored everything that came after the flag. I would argue that a little bit more inflexibility on darcs's part could be good for the luser. Specifically, darcs could perhaps notice that --edit-description and --unified do NOT accept arguments. In this particular case, we will get an error message and perhaps the user would be motivated to go look in that manual again. It won't solve all cases of user stupidity, but maybe it will help for some common ones. ---------- messages: 3407 nosy: beschmi, droundy, kowey, tommy priority: wishlist status: unread title: wish: distinguish between NoArg, OptArgs, and ReqArg in defaults parser topic: UI __________________________________ Darcs bug tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue691> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
