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Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity crash
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Ben Escoto |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity crash |
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Fri, 8 Aug 2003 12:22:13 -0700 |
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On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:41:38PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> Why did I expect a --help option to be in there at all? Because that
> is an emerging standard for friendly Linux programs. It is handy to
> have a quick summary of usage, even if it is slightly redundant. The
> goal is to just prompt somebody who knows the program of the exact
> name or usage. In addition some shells can use --help to do smart
> completion of option names.
Those shells should just read the man page :-P
> It's fairly straightforward to generate --help output from the option
> table (at least with some libraries), or from a subsection of the
> manpage, or whatever.
Actually it is nice and I've use --help myself on occasion. But I'll
let someone else figure out how to automatically generate it.
BTW, just checked in pwd/grp caching as you suggested. Since librsync
0.9.6 just came out I will probably release 0.4.1 soon.
--
Ben Escoto
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