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--repeat is not the default #6

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RonnyPfannschmidt opened this issue Mar 2, 2010 · 6 comments
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--repeat is not the default #6

RonnyPfannschmidt opened this issue Mar 2, 2010 · 6 comments

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@RonnyPfannschmidt
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this one es rather painfull
even more so in multi-file context

also there hardly seems to be a reason not to make it the default
all errors at once is vastly more helpfull

@florentx
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florentx commented Mar 2, 2010

When you do "cp dira/ dirb/", the -r switch is not the default, too.

IMHO, for the casual user which launch the command for the first time on a large folder, it is better not to clutter the screen with tons of messages.

For the regular user, the "-r" switch is not so difficult to type.

@RonnyPfannschmidt
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the lack of --repeat is quite distressing when actually fixing errors

it repeatedly sends me to different files in a random pattern based on whats actually shown

it just a lot of pain cause it thinks in terms of all files wrt what kinds of errors to show

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dwf commented Nov 23, 2011

+1. --repeat should be default.

@florentx the -r flag to cp does not stand for 'repeat', but rather 'recursive', and the two behaviours are not analogous.

@florentx
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I will consider adding switch --first in next release, and setting --repeat as default behaviour.

--first    show first occurrence of each error

@rconradharris
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+1 on --repeat being the default.

@florentx
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funny that I pushed version 0.7.0 three days ago, and it changed this behaviour.

this issue should be closed.

@florentx florentx closed this as completed Apr 6, 2012
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