Package: mr Version: 0.39 Severity: wishlist I use mr to keep a number of branches on my laptop up to date, so that I can easily take my laptop and go hack, without having to remember to copy everything manually onto it.
I run mr from cron. This works fine, since all branches I am mirroring are publically available. I get an e-mail from cron every few hours, which contains the output of mr. I have to scan this manually to see if (and what) went wrong. Using the -q option does not significantly reduce the amount of text I need to scan. It would be really handy for me to have a --really-quiet option (by whatever name), which would suppress all output, unless something went wrong. Possibly just outputting a single line saying all went OK (and N branches were updated). This way, I could spend a few less brain cycles on dealing with this output. Actually, now that I think of it, it might be possible to generalize this: a command called something like suppress-output-unless-there-was-an-error that would capture stdout and stderr and print nothing if the command exited with 0, else print everything. Joey, would you prefer mr --really-quiet or a command to submit to moreutils? I'd be happy to submit a patch for either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
