Hi,
Here's a slight annoyance with the patch selection UI that I just experienced.
The short summary is that once you've said n(o) to a patch, you can't go back
to a patch before it (via the k key), and be asked about the patch
again, this is
probably by design, but it was irritating in this case.
To elaborate:
$ darcs init --repo R && cd R
$ touch A B C D E
Now, initially say n(o) to A B C D, but then decide that we do want to include
those patches after all, so go back to A and say y(es):
$ darcs rec -l
addfile ./A
Shall I record this change? (1/5) [ynW...], or ? for more options: n
addfile ./B
Shall I record this change? (2/5) [ynW...], or ? for more options: n
addfile ./C
Shall I record this change? (3/5) [ynW...], or ? for more options: n
addfile ./D
Shall I record this change? (4/5) [ynW...], or ? for more options: n
addfile ./E
Shall I record this change? (5/5) [ynW...], or ? for more options: k
addfile ./D
Shall I record this change? (4/5) [yNw...], or ? for more options: k
addfile ./C
Shall I record this change? (3/5) [yNw...], or ? for more options: k
addfile ./B
Shall I record this change? (2/5) [yNw...], or ? for more options: k
addfile ./A
Shall I record this change? (1/5) [yNw...], or ? for more options: y
Will not ask whether to record 3 already decided patches.
addfile ./E
Shall I record this change? (5/5) [ynW...], or ? for more options:
Note the "Will not ask whether to record 3 already decided patches". This
behaviour is the same whichever patch you say yes to - you immediately get
taken back to E, with no option to be asked about the other patches.
The only way to select A-D, is to go back to A, say y, then go back to B, say
y, and so on... tedious!
Now there does exist the w(ait) option, which works as expected (once I go back
to A, and say yes, darcs prompts for B,C,D), but in this case I didn't expect
to want to decide later (hence using n in the first place).
I would suggest that since 'k' gives you the ability to go back to patches
we've already said n to, we should be re-prompted for all those that we pass
by with 'k' - in this case, 'k' should reset our choices for B,C,D when we pass
them by. If we don't want to be re-prompted, we could use 'j' to skip forward.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
--
Owen.
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