On 2014-07-22 02:36, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Last time this happened, I mentioned to Dirk that maybe we should have
a
"download only last N days" in the dive computer download logic, but
that
ends up having its own set of problems, like the fact that some dive
computers will only download things in a certain order (and not
necessarily latest first), so it's hard to say "start at xyz". It also
ends up being a messy interface.
Libdivecomputer should always return the dives in newest to oldest
order, no matter how the underlying protocol works. This is an
requirement for an efficient implementation of the "download only new
dives" feature. So if you noticed that dives are returned in some other
order, then please report as a bug.
One caveat: it *only* solves the mess problem if you keep all your
other
dives in trips too. If you have old dives that aren't in some trip, and
they overlap with the newly downloaded dives, the dive merging might
still
choose to merge that old non-trip dive with the newly downloaded dive
that
has the new private trip. But at least for my use case, this isn't
really
a problem.
I think it's a bad idea to treat non-trip dives different. Not everyone
organizes dives in trips. For example when diving locally, grouping
dives in trips doesn't make much sense. But disabling the automatic
merging is still a very useful feature in such case.
Jef
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