On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 19:52:56 +0100, Miles Gould wrote: > A possible alternative would be to allow the user to give nicknames to > other repositories: "1.3_test", "steve", "production" and so on. Then > the user could type "darcs push production" or "darcs pull steve". > Is there already a facility for doing this?
There isn't one (yet). > This is a less Darcsy interface than Ganesh's proposal, because it > doesn't prompt the user as much. But I think I've made my feelings clear > on that point already :-) It would avoid the need to add flags to > push/pull/etc, and would require the user to type less in most cases. I agree it's irritating when Darcs gives confirmation/warning style prompts when it does not need to, and that these could be considered usability bugs, so I wouldn't call prompting Darcs-y necessarily. The positive aspect of the Darcs interactivity is the reduction in memory work (I think) -- (A) because you don't have to remember or look up something to do what might be a complex task (eg. cherry picking) and (B) because of the shared/universal nature of the prompts (different operations have the same kind of prompting). That I think we want to preserve. Adding prompts for the sake of darcsyness, maybe not. Assuming we can work out the compatibility issues, maybe your proposal is the right one. One implementation/variant of it would be darcs push --path-alias "1.3_test [email protected]:/random/path"\ --path-alias "steve [email protected]:/other/path" steve The idea then is that the path-aliases could go in your darcs defaults file. -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> For a faster response, try +44 (0)1273 64 2905 or xmpp:[email protected] (Jabber or Google Talk only)
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