Re: [RFC] Move all btrfs command to only one command

[Josh Berry <des@condordes.net>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 05:03, Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@gmail.com>=
 wrote:
> On Thursday, 19 August, 2010, James Smith wrote:
>> This patch randomizes the error codes and also fixes up some typos
> including
>> capitalization in the output.
>>
>> It would almost be nice to see a translation effort for the tool as =
well.
[...]
>
> + =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0=
 =C2=A0 fprintf(stderr, "ERR-A.11: in command '");
>
> I am not against this kind of error codes, but I prefer
>
> + =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0=
 =C2=A0 fprintf(stderr, "Error 'ERR-A.11' in command '");

As a layman/end user, I disagree.  The former format is easier for
shell scripts and the like to parse -- the error code can be extracted
with a simple "cut -d: -f1".

(In fact, I wish the output from things like "btrfs filesystem df",
"show", etc. were easier to parse, but that's a separate issue. :) )

-- Josh
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