Re: [Quilt-dev] Submit patch: allow "quilt delete" to delete patch files

[Martin Quinson]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:41:36AM -0700, Joe Green wrote:
> Jean Delvare wrote:
> 
> > Martin wrote:
> >>
> >>Or, since it's contradictory with the existance of --backup, maybe
> >>--remove, ie the long option only.
> >>
> >>After all, we can live with long options only, thanks to the completion ;)
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >I don't think so. Not everyone uses bash completion or zsh. Thois option
> >is likely to be typed often, as I can easily imagine that some users
> >will want to use it for some of their patches and not the other ones (so
> >it can't be set in QUILT_DELETE_OPTIONS). As quilt does seem to offer
> >only one name (either long or short) for each option, I'd go with -r.
> > 
> >
> I agree.  I seriously considered calling it "--remove" but decided on 
> "-r" for similar reasons.  I think "--backup" is more likely to be set 
> globally from QUILTRC, using either QUILT_DELETE_ARGS or QUILT_BACKUP.
> 
> The latter is the reason why "--backup" requires "-r" rather than being 
> an alternative to it.  I didn't want to introduce a silent change in the 
> behavior of delete for people who are already using QUILT_BACKUP.  This 
> is also why "--backup" is silently ignored if "-r" is missing rather 
> than generating a usage error.

Fine with me, then. I take it back.
Mt.

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