Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] btrfs-progs: make quiet to overrule verbose

[Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>]

On 25/10/19 7:51 AM, Anand Jain wrote:
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> On 24/10/19 11:41 PM, David Sterba wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 02:28:22PM +0800, Anand Jain wrote:
>>> When both the options (--quiet and --verbose) in btrfs send and receive
>>> is specified, we need at least one of it to overrule the other, 
>>> irrespective
>>> of the chronological order of options.
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>> I think the common behaviour is to respect the order of appearance on
>> the commandline.
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>    I am fine with this. Will fix it as this.

  Question: command -v -q -v should be equal to command -v, right?

Thanks, Anand


>    (IMO generally command -q is used in scripts so it makes sense to keep
>    it absolutely quiet when used. Where as -v is used for
>    understanding.).
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>> So 'command -vvv -q' will be the same as 'command -q',
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>> while 'command -q -vvv' will be 'command -vvv'.
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>   We need to fix this. As of now command -q -vvv is command -vv.
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> Thanks, Anand
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>> Eg. ssh behaves like that, OTOH rsync does not and -q beats -vvv. I
>> don't know about other commands that accept multiple -v and -q to get
>> more samples. The usage pattern where order on command line matters is
>> following the idea where there's a long line and adding -vvv to the end
>> will make it verbose.
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