David Allouche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:devel/bazaar-tests $ baz rbrowse --versions [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]/
> [...]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]/pyarch--abentley--0.5.0
> [...]
>
> You probably want to fix "rbrowse archive/" to behave correctly before
> removing abrowse.
Hmm, actually, it behaves correctly in the sense that it meets its
specifications: in "rbrowse archive/", "archive" is a regexp, and
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" will match the regexp
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]". You wanted to do baz rbrowse --versions
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]/'.
So, we can't "fix" it, but we can change its specifications (and then
the implementation) to make it more user-friendly.
I was thinking of a --enable-regexp option (can anyone find a better
name?), and disable this regexp-searching by default. Actually, this
could apply to any command accepting a list of revisions as argument,
like (in the latest 1.5):
baz missing --enable-regexp '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/bazaar.*'
Another (more or less orthogonal) possibility is to make the leading ^
and the trailing $ implicit:
baz rbrowse [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ => only "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
baz rbrowse '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/' => explicitely allow an
arbitrary suffix.
I'll implement this second option.
> Also, why not just rename "rbrowse" to "browse"? This vestigial r prefix
> does not make a lot of sense when abrowse is gone.
True. Should be fine if we keep rbrowse as a deprecated alias for long
enough.
> The plan, about 6 months back (if memory serves), was to deprecate those
> commands in favor of a glob-based "branches" command, at some point
> after nuking the c-b-v hierarchy. I do not know what happened to the
> idea, but maybe you should sync about it with Robert.
I had some related thoughts here:
http://wiki.gnuarch.org/FrontEndFriendly
Actually, this "branches" command you're talking about is more or less
what "rbrowse" has become now.
--
Matthieu
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