[tahoe-dev] getting more feedback out of darcs

[zooko]

Folks:

The next time you run "darcs pull" and it doesn't give you sufficient  
updates about what it is doing, try adding "--debug-verbose".

Regards,

Zooko


On Jan 14, 2008, at 8:25 PM, Mark Stosberg wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, zooko wrote:
>>
>> $ darcs pull -v -v -v
>
> Did you try "darcs pull --debug" as alternative?
>
> I think that may have the verbose output you are looking for.
>
> Our docs say that "verbose" produces more information, but exactly  
> what
> that information is defined per sub-command.
>
> In the case of "pull" we document a specific purpose for "verbose"
> http://www.darcs.net/doc-unstable/ 
> node7.html#SECTION00762000000000000000
>
> We do not further document what "debug" does, and it has a confusingly
> similar name to me.
>
> I would argue that "darcs -vv" or greater should automatically invoke
> "--debug".
>
> Perhaps that "--debug" should be eliminated in favor in of "-vv".
>
> Or perhaps the current very-specific behavior of "pull -v" should have
> its own switch name, and simply "--verbose" should provide the detail
> that --debug does.
>
> Anyway, I agree there is room for improvement there.
>
>      Mark
>
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> http://mark.stosberg.com/
>
>
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