On 07/14/2010 02:47 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 07:47:56PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
I did not imagine I could have caused such a reaction for a safety measure
that I thought could have been quite easily overcomed. I am going to do
nothing until a *clear* consensus emerges about what should be the default
behavior when exporting from command line. I think it boils down to:
1) Never ovewrite files, unless explicitely told so
2) The main file should be always overwritten
Please, find attached the corresponding patches.
- overwrite-1.diff implements behavior 1
- overwrite-2.diff implements behavior 2
The patch obtaining more votes will be applied.
I don't have insanely strong views about this, but I tend to agree with
Enrico and so would vote for (1). I understand that it will cause some
heartache for people who use a lot of scripts, but if the environment
variable is checked---is that in this patch?---then it's easy to make
one's own system behave globally as if we had gone with (2). That seems
good enough to me, and it protects people from doing something dumb.
Richard
