On 3 Oct 2009, at 14:21, Ben Franksen wrote:
Florent Becker wrote:
Reinier Lamers wrote:
These changes offer some useful functionality, but they do suffer
from
the problems inherent in the current [DarcsFlag] paradigm of
command line
handling. It seems that when you specify both --quiet and --
verbose, you
get the debug output but not the info output.
Yes, but I don't know what would be the right behaviour when faced
with
such an inconsistent user.
What I use to do such cases is terminate with an error saying "don't
know
how to be both --quite and --verbose".
The usual solution for this is to consider the command line option
that came last. If you give an error, it helps nothing, but it can
hurt a lot. Imagine I have darcs aliases to 'darcs --quiet', but in
some cases I want to be verbose I can still say darcs --verbose which
will expand to darcs --quiet --verbose and the later should be
considered, not an error given, because the only way to fix this is to
redefine or delete my alias (I'm speaking of shell aliases here).
The reason why it is common practice to use the last option specified,
is not as much to allow users to get creative in inputting conflicting
options, but to be able to gracefully handle cases like the one
described above. No reasonable user will explicitly type darcs --quiet
--verbose in one single command, but a shell alias expansion may
produce that.
--
Dan
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