Roel Janssen writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hi Roel! >> >> I realized we have not applied this --list-generations patch of yours, >> which is a pity. So… >> >> Roel Janssen <r...@gnu.org> skribis: >> >>> Vincent Legoll writes: >>> >>>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> 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.
My GNU mail hasn't been working for a couple of days, but now that it does, I wonder if the initial patch I sent is fine as-is, since we agree upon only showing the diff format. Should I implement the --no-diff-format option to change to the old behavior? Kind regards, Roel Janssen
