Bikeshedding: merge --show?

Augie Fackler durin42 at gmail.com
Thu May 14 13:32:57 CDT 2009


On May 14, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Matt Mackall wrote:

> 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.

It also has an effect on pull/push if a password will be required.

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