In my opinion you made a very good choice by making -O the default behavior of darcs send. I don't see any problem with a command named "send" that does not send anything... its purpose is to generate a bundle *to be sent*, and it can actually send it automatically if you want.
When I started contributing Darcs I had that problem, and it was irritating. I wanted to upload a patch but I didn't have too much time. Hence, I "configured" my sendmail and run darcs send... a few days later I discovered that my sendmail configuration was wrong and the mail was lost. I just wanted to support this change. Cheers, Iago Abal Rivas On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Eric Kow <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've pushed a patch to the screened (bleeding-edge) repository that > changes the Darcs UI in the following way: > > * darcs send just generates a patch bundle (equivalent to darcs-2.8 send > -O) > * darcs send --mail by itself sends the bundle via sendmail (no file > saved; equivalent to darcs-2.8 send) > * darcs send --mail -O should ignores the --mail flag (likewise with -o) > (the idea being that if you put --mail in your defaults, you can still > override it) > > If this change is accepted, it will filter through to the Darcs 2.10 > release. If you use darcs send to communicate patches with your team, it's > worth making note of this change (the UI will remind you). > > The thinking behind this is a belief that people these days don't > generally have a mailer properly configured on their computer (one that > provides a sendmail) command, and a more useful workflow for such users is > just for it to be convenient to create patch bundle files that they can > email by hand. > > Basically darcs send (--mail) is great for users like me who use Darcs on > a daily basis, but perhaps not so great for somebody who's just trying > darcs out, or forced to use it to interact with their Darcs-using friends. > It'd be a really bad thing for them if darcs send were to succeed and > mysteriously dump your patch into a blackhole (your improperly configured > mailer's queue) > > http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2204 > > It's likely that I've not seen the whole picture here, so any feedback you > might have would be appreciated. > > -- > Eric Kow <http://erickow.com> > > _______________________________________________ > darcs-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users >
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