Bikeshedding: merge --show?

[Stefan Rusek]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 16:12, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/5/14 Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl>:
>> I just pushed a -S/--show option for merge to crew. It makes merge
>> output the revisions that will be merged, in the familiar log format,
>> and exits before actually merging.
>>
>> I really like the idea myself, I've had a need for it a couple of
>> times over the past few days, but I'm not sure --show is the best
>> name. Ideally, the name should be short and make very clear that this
>> is just about reviewing the changesets that would otherwise be merged,
>> and won't actually merge them. --review came to mind as another
>> possibility. (I think it's useful enough that it merits a short
>> option, and the option space for merge isn't very crowded anyway.)
>>
>> Any good ideas?
>
> --preview ?
>

--preview is good, I've also seen --whatif used.

> Paul
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