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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xl: rename "list-vm" command to "vm-list"
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:36:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1340868977.5210.18.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120628072810.GA9080@US-SEA-R8XVZTX>

On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 08:28 +0100, Matt Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:59:16PM -0700, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 07:46 +0100, Matt Wilson wrote:
> > > All of the other "list" verbs are of the form "$noun-list". For
> > > example: "pci-list", "vcpu-list", "network-list", "block-list", etc.
> > > Additionally, many people have well trained muscle memory from years
> > > of typing "xm li". "xl li" was ambiguous due to "xl list-vm" resulted
> > > in "command not implemented".
> > 
> > Which did xm have list-vm or vm-list (or neither?) 
> 
> Neither.

In which case I would ack the patch except you forgot to update
docs/man/xl*.pod.? (hrm, somehow list-vm isn't there -- can you add
vm-list anyway?)

Ian.

> 
> > Aside: I'd love for someone to implement (for 4.3) a better error
> > message than "command not implemented". At the least printing out the
> > list of clashing options, or even git style "Did you mean" when you make
> > a typo.
> 
> That would definitely be nice to have.
> 
> Matt

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-28  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-28  6:46 [PATCH] xl: rename "list-vm" command to "vm-list" Matt Wilson
2012-06-28  6:59 ` Ian Campbell
2012-06-28  7:28   ` Matt Wilson
2012-06-28  7:36     ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2012-06-28  7:37       ` Matt Wilson
2012-06-28  7:41         ` Ian Campbell
2012-06-28  7:59 Matt Wilson
2012-06-28  8:35 ` Ian Campbell
2012-06-28 15:08 ` Ian Jackson
2012-06-28 15:14   ` Ian Campbell
2012-06-28 16:18     ` Ian Jackson
2012-06-28 17:07   ` Matt Wilson

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