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Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone with argp
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Nathaniel Smith |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone with argp |
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Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:24:10 -0800 |
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:04:36AM -0700, Derek Scherger wrote:
>
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Badai Aqrandista wrote:
> >i am planning to add sub command argument to monotone with argp... my
> >first target will be --message because it is specific only to 'commit'
> >command... any thoughts?
>
> I think that --message might also reasonably apply to the comment command
> and I'm not sure what to do with that. It seems like we perhaps have a set
> of available options, some subset of which applies to each command. I'm
> sure that some options really will be specific to exactly one command
> though (-ubw type options for diff for example).
I was thinking about this some the other day... CVS gets flack,
somewhat justifiably, for its confusing two-tier command line, where
the same option can mean completely different things depending on
whether it goes before or after the sub-command. So we'd been
originally trying to avoid having sub-command options like that in
Monotone. On the other hand, we do seem to really need some sort of
sub-command options...
So what if we do it this way: there is a set of "global" options
(--debug, --help, etc.) that are compatible with every sub-command.
Each command also accepts other options. These options are globally
unique and can occur anywhere on the command line, but if used with
the wrong sub-command will give some sort of error.
So, in rough mockup (man, it's a lot easier doing mockups for command
line programs than for GUIs...):
$ monotone --help
Usage: monotone [OPTION...] command [ARGS...]
Global options:
--debug print debug log to stderr while running
--dump=STRING file to dump debugging log to, on failure
--quiet suppress log and progress messages
--help display help message
--nostd do not load standard lua hooks
--norc do not load ~/.monotonerc or MT/monotonerc lua files
--rcfile=STRING load extra rc file
--key=STRING set key for signatures
--db=STRING set name of database
--branch=STRING select branch cert for operation
--version print version number, then exit
--full-version print detailed version number, then exit
--ticker=STRING set ticker style (count|dot) [count]
Command-specific options:
--revision=STRING select revision id for operation (diff, cdiff)
--message=STRING set commit changelog message (commit)
<list of commands>
$ monotone commit --help
Usage: monotone [OPTION...] command [ARGS...]
Global options:
<...>
Options for 'commit':
--message=STRING set commit changelog message
<description of commit command, as per now>
$ monotone commit --message=foo
<commits>
$ monotone --message=foo commit
<commits>
$ monotone --message=foo diff
monotone: misuse: 'diff' does not take option '--message'
Lots of things could be tweaked about this, but how does that sound as
a general approach?
-- Nathaniel
--
In mathematics, it's not enough to read the words
you have to hear the music
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Is there something like libmonotone?, (continued)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Is there something like libmonotone?, Andreas Känner, 2005/01/28
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Is there something like libmonotone?, graydon hoare, 2005/01/28
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Is there something like libmonotone?, Peter Simons, 2005/01/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Is there something like libmonotone?, Andreas Känner, 2005/01/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Is there something like libmonotone?, sergio GARCIA, 2005/01/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Is there something like libmonotone?, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/01/30
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Is there something like libmonotone?, Zack Weinberg, 2005/01/30
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Is there something like libmonotone?, Andreas Känner, 2005/01/30
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Is there something like libmonotone?, Bruce Stephens, 2005/01/30
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Is there something like libmonotone?, Christof Petig, 2005/01/31
- Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone with argp,
Nathaniel Smith <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone with argp, Badai Aqrandista, 2005/01/28
- Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone with argp, Matthew A. Nicholson, 2005/01/27
- Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone with argp, Badai Aqrandista, 2005/01/28
- Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone with argp, Matthew A. Nicholson, 2005/01/28
- Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone with argp, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/01/28
- Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone with argp, Badai Aqrandista, 2005/01/30