Can't import qbzr?
vila
v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr
Tue May 31 10:39:50 UTC 2011
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> writes:
>> From: vila <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr>
>> Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 10:44:02 +0200
>> Cc: Bazaar <bazaar at lists.canonical.com>
>>
>> > .bzr.log is intended mostly for developers, isn't it?
>>
>> The distinction in this specific case is hard to do, was Eli a user or a
>> dev when it encountered the issue ?
>>
>> > So curious users should tolerate some debug stuff there, shouldn't
>> > they?
>>
>> I think the idea here is that Eli was surprised to encounter the message
>> so that's a reason to not output it for him.
> Maybe I should explain. I habitually look at my .bzr.log (in fact, I
> have it loaded into my Emacs session at all times in auto-revert
> mode),
Sounds like a useful trick, how do you do that ?
> because experience taught me that I find many important clues
> there. If nothing else, I want to have an idea about the time
> taken by various common commands. Also, whenever I install a new
> plugin, its logs will sometimes tell me important things like
> something's missing or mis-configured.
Hehe, right, a powerful and helpful user able to do good bug reports
indeed !
> Finally, it is a meticulously recorded history of all the bzr
> commands I ever invoked, since the day I installed the first
> version I used.
You know it's rotated above ~4MO right ? (Mentioning just in case you
rely on it being kept for ever).
<snip/>
> In general, I think .bzr.log is a great tool, certainly not only
> for developers.
Hmm, right. But actually it *is* targeted at devs, we put zero effort to
make it user-friendly, may be we should (or provide some command to
filter it a bit).
Vincent
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