From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Tom=C3=A1=C5=A1_?= =?UTF-8?Q?=C4=8Cech?= Subject: bug#20137: number of generation doesn't always rise monotonically Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:50:24 +0100 Message-ID: <20150323095024.GF24080@crashnator.suse.cz> References: <20150318173550.GE525@venom.suse.cz> <20150322234051.GE3826@venom> <87lhiom5zq.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="H4SyuGOnfnj3aJqJ" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44415) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YZz0j-0005pS-Gk for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 05:51:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YZz0g-0007oF-6R for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 05:51:05 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:43417) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YZz0g-0007oB-3N for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 05:51:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YZz0f-0000j4-QT for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 05:51:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87lhiom5zq.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: 20137@debbugs.gnu.org --H4SyuGOnfnj3aJqJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:13:13AM +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >Tom=C3=A1=C5=A1 =C4=8Cech skribis: > >>>Perhaps we can eventually move to an actual tree structure where the >>>nodes can be named whatever. Until now I thought that's how generations >>>work, and are just named after integers for identification purposes. > >[...] > >>>I=E2=80=99m concerned that this would add both code and user interface >>>complexity for mostly hypothetical use cases. WDYT? >> >> Yes, it would surely add some more code and would be demanding for >> creating good visual represantation for users, but it could also be >> much closer to behavior user would expect. And that is something which >> makes tools to be natural to use. > >I=E2=80=99m not sure. My guess is that an undo-style tree would turn out = to be >less obvious or more difficult to use. > >Currently, understanding what=E2=80=99s going on with M-x guix-generations= or >--list-generations and similar is fairly straightforward. I'm not using emacs for controling guix at all. But I should start - I can = see that is completely different user experience! Thanks! S_W --H4SyuGOnfnj3aJqJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlUP4d0ACgkQ37XrCapiVCPNbACfXgoj956eOIn+gbp0WgxPuPUb uJsAnRdPxEM0nDqA+axZTdEZdqZNC4gW =0EoN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --H4SyuGOnfnj3aJqJ--