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Date:      Sat, 28 Aug 1999 16:15:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        Michael Haro <mharo@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/mkdir mkdir.1 mkdir.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908281611370.32074-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
In-Reply-To: <199908282102.OAA60244@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> >   Log:
> >   add verbose flag
> 
> Why????   Are you planning to add this to every command.  What purpose
> does this serve, or what problem does it work around?

Do all commits have to work around problems? Are we so stuck in our ways
that we can't just add functionality?

Though traditionalists and anti-bloat people will have difficulty
swallowing these commits, it does help debugging and it does help in
scripting. There have been a number of PRs requesting this functionality. 

Kudos to Michael for actually doing something about it.

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