"--debug" [was: Getting long hashes]

[Jens Alfke]

On 4 Oct '07, at 10:14 PM, Andrei Gaponenko wrote:

> Hmm..  That works, but --debug is a switch that I am leery to use for
> production.  The name suggests that in a future version it may mean  
> more
> than just printing out unabbreviated hash.

Yeah, I've had the same qualms myself. (In my case, I found that the  
only way for my app to get 'hg log' to include information about  
addition and removal of files is to use --debug.)

I think it'd be a good idea to identify the generally-useful features  
that are currently enabled by --debug, and add those as their own  
(documented) flags. Either that, or just rename "--debug" to "--extra- 
verbose" :) Is that worth filing a bug ticket?

--Jens