Hi Owen,
thanks for your response.
* [Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 04:31:37PM +0100] Owen Stephens:
Anyway, what surprised me is that I'm pretty sure once upon a time
there was a final capital prompt for the obliterate action on the
line: "Don't do it. Ok, if you really want, you can do it. But don't
tell I haven't warned you".
Which version of darcs are you using?
Sure, that would be useful :) Sorry for having forgotten to mention it
previously.
$ darcs --exact-version
darcs compiled on May 26 2012, at 18:49:02
Context:
[TAG 2.8.1
Ganesh Sittampalam <gan...@earth.li>**20120514063340
Ignore-this: fbc024be64f47a743c1336c374f9bb14
]
...
( that's the debian shipped package )
In recent (not sure exactly which, but I can find out if necessary) darcs,
there's a "last regrets" prompt which does exactly that: after selecting
patches it says "Do you want to obliterate these patches?"
It seems that patch isn't included in the version I'm using, maybe it
doesn't belong to a released version?
--- (useless output removed for the sake of readability )
$ touch a b c d
$ darcs ini
$ darcs add *
$ for a in * ; do darcs reco -am $a $a ; done
$ darcs obliterate
Tue Sep 18 18:04:38 CEST 2012 "Gian Piero Carrubba" <gpi...@rm-rf.it>
* d
Shall I obliterate this patch? (1/4) [ynW...], or ? for more options: n
Tue Sep 18 18:04:38 CEST 2012 "Gian Piero Carrubba" <gpi...@rm-rf.it>
* c
Shall I obliterate this patch? (2/4) [ynW...], or ? for more options: y
Tue Sep 18 18:04:38 CEST 2012 "Gian Piero Carrubba" <gpi...@rm-rf.it>
* b
Shall I obliterate this patch? (3/4) [ynW...], or ? for more options: y
Tue Sep 18 18:04:37 CEST 2012 "Gian Piero Carrubba" <gpi...@rm-rf.it>
* a
Shall I obliterate this patch? (4/4) [ynW...], or ? for more options: n
Finished obliterating.
$
---
What sounded strange to me is that I'm pretty sure the "last regrets
prompt" was present before (cannot give a time frame, it could also be
in the 1.x era), but maybe I'm just mis-remembering.
Hmm, this (the fact that revert offers a final prompt) suggests you might be
using a darcs with last regrets. Did you perhaps use `darcs ob -a`?
AFAICS, `darcs ob -a' would obliterate all the patches, but I'm sure
I've been prompted for selecting patches, so I can quite exclude I've
used the `-a' parameter.
Or maybe you're thinking of the message:
This operation will make unrevert impossible!
Proceed? [yn]
which would only show up if you'd previously reverted some changes, prior to
running obliterate?
I was referring to the "Do you really want to revert this change?"
prompt after having selected hunks for 'reversion' (that _is_ displayed
by the same version of darcs I'm using).
Apart from the consequences of my error (minimal), I was surprised by
the lack of the 'last-chance' prompt for `obliterate' both because
`revert' does have it AND I was sure `obliterate' also had it in the
past. So I thought this was a (IMHO, questionable) deliberate UI choice.
But if I've understood it correctly, it is either a bug or simply the
version I'm using doesn't include that feature.
And... Oh, well, if someone could confirm that `obliterate' historically
had the 'last-chance' prompt, that would greatly increase my
self-confidence :)
Ciao,
Gian Piero.
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