From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Display diffs between generations. Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 22:30:30 +0200 Message-ID: <87eg3ogd5l.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87eg59izmw.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1kry22u.fsf@gnu.org> <87inuj5r5v.fsf@gnu.org> <87y43ck6dz.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8frq0n5.fsf@gnu.org> <87lgz78v4d.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55638) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bthDd-0002UR-2d for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:30:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bthDW-00035J-VL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:30:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87lgz78v4d.fsf@gnu.org> (Roel Janssen's message of "Sun, 04 Sep 2016 18:53:06 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Roel Janssen Cc: guix-devel Hi Roel! I realized we have not applied this --list-generations patch of yours, which is a pity. So=E2=80=A6 Roel Janssen skribis: > Vincent Legoll writes: > >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrot= e: >>>>>>> --list-generations=3Dfull >>>> >>>> I think keeping a way to see all generations in one go would be cool >>> >>> --list-generations would still display all the generations. Or did you >>> mean =E2=80=9Ca way to see *the content* of each generation=E2=80=9D? >> >> I'm not sure to understand what you mean by "the content", what I meant >> was to keep what current guix package -l shows us, i.e. do not alter cur= rent >> UI, only add new things, but do not break existing practices when not ma= ndated. > > What about adding a `--no-diff-format' or a `--diff-format' argument to > `--list-generations'? > > We could then make two choices: Default to the proposed diff format, or > default to the full format (what we have now). Depending on what we > choose as default, we can implement the appropriate negating argument. > > I would prefer defaulting to the diff format.. In the discussion that ensued, it seems there was a consensus to provide only the diff format: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-09/msg00385.html So it seems all the lights are green. :-) Let me know if there=E2=80=99s anything we should do to help! Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.