On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 5:42 PM, Yuya Nishihara <y...@tcha.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 11:39:26 -0800, Gregory Szorc wrote: > > I will say that I believe we had general consensus at a previous sprint > to > > implement proper support for sub-commands. This would allow us to > implement > > arguments on individual show views. e.g. `hg show work --maxage 14d`. It > > could also be useful for commands like bookmarks and topics, which try to > > shoehorn lots of functionality into a single command. From a UX > > perspective, I think explicit verbs are better than dash prefixed > arguments > > for controlling mode of operation. e.g. `hg bookmark delete foo` > (possibly > > bad example due to BC concerns). > > > > If this is the direction we want to go in, I'd be hesitant to implement > > [alias] support unless we're sure it would be compatible with proper > > sub-commands. > > Ah, okay, I didn't know the sub-command thingy. Let's revisit after that. > I don't wanna make the dispatcher more complicated. > Well, nobody is actively working on sub-commands. So if you see a way to make this aliasing thing work such that it is forward compatible with sub-commands, then my vote is to do it.
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