From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roel Janssen Subject: Re: Display diffs between generations. Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 09:19:30 +0200 Message-ID: <87r37nxshp.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> <87eg3ogd5l.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]:59566) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btrKc-00074v-HV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 03:18:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btrKa-0006hL-E3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 03:18:33 -0400 In-reply-to: <87eg3ogd5l.fsf@gnu.org> 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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Roel! > > I realized we have not applied this --list-generations patch of yours, > which is a pity. So… > > Roel Janssen skribis: > >> 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.. > > 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’s > anything we should do to help! Thanks for the reminder. I seem to have a lot to finish up :-). I will work out the arguments and post a new version of the patch for final review. Kind regards, Roel Janssen