Re: [fossil-users] fossil timeline -W num -n num

[j. van den hoff]

On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 20:35:06 +0100, Jan Nijtmans jan.nijtm...@gmail.com
wrote:


2013/11/11 j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com:

well, if you ask me, I then would prefer the latter solution since
it minimizes the number of cases where the line actually is visible.


Agreed. Done in:
http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/info/8e01c2257d


that would have been nice but your change has been silently (or so it  
seems) undone in rev.

ab4d4dacf7. could someone please explain
why the ` === line/entry limit reached ===' lines are that important? I
personally just find them distracting.

and the solution in 8e01c2257d still would have sufficed to differentiate
the relevant cases -- at least that
was my understanding of your explanations.



Thanks for your suggestion!

Regards,
 Jan Nijtmans



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Re: [fossil-users] fossil timeline -W num -n num

[Jan Nijtmans]

2013/11/11 j. van den hoff veedeeh...@googlemail.com:
 it has variable content (either === line limit (20) reached === (if `n 20'
 is specified) or === entry limit (20) reached === (if `n` is not specified
 at all) or missing altogether if the full timeline is displayed). the `line'
 vs. `entry' difference presumably is unintentional (is it?)

For me it was fully intentional! For the trunk timeline it's not
that useful to know that the timeline is not finished, but for other
timelines it could be useful to know whether the complete
timeline is printed or not.

 but I probably
 would either always display that line or actually remove it altogether. I
 would prefer the latter since the line anyway does not tell me anything I do
 not know in the first place: I am either using the default (and I should
 know from the help page that this is 20)
Many people don't read the help pages, unfortunately.
 or I just have specified -n
 explicitely and don't need that reminder.
It's not meant as a reminder. If you specify -n 20 and there are
less than 20 entries, there will be no such last line.

An alternative could be to do the reverse: Output a last line like:
=== timeline complete ===
when there are no more entries. Would you prefer that?
However, I would like to be able to tell the difference, whether
the loop stopped because the limit was reached or there
are no more entries any more.

Anyway, I'm glad you like the feature! Thanks!

Regards,
 Jan Nijtmans
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