Bikeshedding: merge --show?

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Thu May 14 13:30:20 CDT 2009


On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:05:41AM -0400, Doug Philips wrote:
> All of the options so far are reasonable.
> hg revert has -n/--dry-run and other unix tools (fwiw) tend to use -n/--dry-run as well.
> 
> Taking this one step further, it would seem to make sense to have
> this functionality (dry-run, preview, whatever) made into a global
> option. Doing it piecemeal seems rather haphazard. Yes, it might not
> have any affect on some commands, but then --noninteractive is also
> a global option that sometimes doesn't have any effect....

--noninteractive is a fine example of a global option that shouldn't
be. I think there's exactly one core command (merge) that it affects.

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