From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roel Janssen Subject: Re: Display diffs between generations. Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2016 18:53:06 +0200 Message-ID: <87lgz78v4d.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87eg59izmw.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1kry22u.fsf@gnu.org> <87inuj5r5v.fsf@gnu.org> <87y43ck6dz.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8frq0n5.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34699) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgaej-0008KZ-QJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2016 12:52:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgaei-0004UL-Pa for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2016 12:52:29 -0400 In-reply-to: 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: Vincent Legoll Cc: guix-devel Vincent Legoll writes: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>>>>> --list-generations=full >>> >>> 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 “a way to see *the content* of each generation”? > > 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 current > UI, only add new things, but do not break existing practices when not mandated. 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.. Thanks for your feedback! Kind regards, Roel Janssen