[Monotone-devel] 0.43's revert is noisy: 'mtn: reverting mtn:execute on ...'

[Jack Lloyd]

I just noticed that in 0.43 the revert command has gotten quite noisy,
and reports reverting of mtn:execute and mtn:manual_merge metadata,
even if no actual reversion took place:

(motoko ~/projects/net.venge.monotone)$ ls -l contrib/ciabot_monotone.py
-rwx------ 1 lloyd lloyd 9.2K Dec 19 13:15 contrib/ciabot_monotone.py*
(motoko ~/projects/net.venge.monotone)$ mtn revert contrib/ 2>&1 | grep ciabot
mtn: reverting mtn:execute on contrib/ciabot_monotone.py

In my opinion this dramatically reduces the usefulness of reverts
output, since it requires either manual or machine grep to exclude
this quite spurious (IMO) output.

I checked help hoping there was a --stfu option that would cause it to
only print reverted content changes, but alas it does not appear so.

There doesn't seem to be any description of this change in NEWS, either.

-Jack

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