Re: [Monotone-devel] [patch]--depth for monotone ls

[Joel Reed]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:59:27AM -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:

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> > 2) --depth as param name ok?
> 
> I'm dubious.  It's pretty confusing if --depth sometimes refers to the
> ancestry graph, and sometimes refers to the filesystem layout.  It's
> especially bad, since 'log' presumably takes _both_ switches...
> (Switching to --maxdepth doesn't really help, now we have two options
> that are arbitrarily different; reminds me of tla's "mv" vs.
> "move"...).
> 
> Not sure what a better name would be.  We can change the name of log's
> --depth option to something else, and let --depth refer to the
> filesystem, if that turns out to allow a nicer solution.

any ideas for ancestry graph "--depth" replacement? maybe --generations ?

i didn't see anything in tla that would help decide:
http://www.flibuste.net/libre/tlarefexport/texinfo/tla_7.html

jr