> Hm, I just browsed the man pages of many VCS systems (CVS included) to find > examples of parameters for the message file. I had no problem locating their > pages, browsing the manual and finding them for 6 VCS systems in about 3 > minutes. >
You must be cleverer than me ... or I felt my 3 minutes as long as 3 hours due to the non-pleasure nature of the task. > I *really* fail to see why an option like this should even be debated or why > one would deny a helpful feature to make our job easier just because there > are already 6 options, that as said, are very easy to get help on. I do not deny anything. In fact, I am not in the position of doing it, as someone else will take decisions about it, not me. I am just adding arguments to a fruitful debate. 2009/12/10 Jeremy Cowgar <[email protected]>: > =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ramon_Rib=F3?= <[email protected]> wrote: >> > If there is an option that a user has no interest in using, why would >> > the user attempt to remember what it was? >> >> I recently had to read the cvs manual to find an option of one >> subcommand. I assure you that it was not a pleasant task to surf >> between the thousands of stupid options that cvs has gained with the >> years. >> > > Hm, I just browsed the man pages of many VCS systems (CVS included) to find > examples of parameters for the message file. I had no problem locating their > pages, browsing the manual and finding them for 6 VCS systems in about 3 > minutes. > >> > I personally like -M / --message-file and would value any features that >> > make fossil easier to integrate >> >> I have recently integrated fossil inside a GUI tool in RamDebugger (is >> it the first integration?), and have not missed at all the >> "-message-file" option. Why? It is fairly easy from an external tool >> to massage the log message to fit in the "-m" option. >> > > Some tools it would not be a problem, you are right. Currently I am trying to > integrate with one tool and it provides a simple macro recorder, nothing > really more. So, what you can type with your keyboard, it will record. I > suppose I could figure out some crazy regexp to do what I want, or we could > do like every other VCS under the sun and provide a -M/--message-file option. > > I *really* fail to see why an option like this should even be debated or why > one would deny a helpful feature to make our job easier just because there > are already 6 options, that as said, are very easy to get help on. > > Jeremy > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
