[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 0028 add --out option to user-show

[Fraser Tweedale]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 05:53:56PM +0200, Tomas Babej wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/24/2015 05:34 PM, Martin Basti wrote:
> > On 24/07/15 16:52, Tomas Babej wrote:
> >>
> >> On 07/24/2015 03:40 PM, Fraser Tweedale wrote:
> >>> The attached patch adds --out option to user-show for saving user's
> >>> certificate(s) to file.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Fraser
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I hate to nitpick here, but is "out" really a descriptive option name
> >> here? I'd prefer something more explicit, like '--save-cert-to', or
> >> maybe even have this operation implemented as a separate command
> >> altogether.
> >>
> >> Tomas
> >>
> > This keyword was already used with several commands. For consistency
> > might be better to have it the same.
> > 
> 
> True. I see this options is being used in the following commands:
> 
>  - cert-show
>  - vault-retrieve
>  - host-show
>  - service-show
>  - user-show (proposed)
> 
> While the first two seem to be an acceptable fit for an option called
> --out, as they mainly deal with cert/secret, using the '--out' for the
> latter three is a poor decision imho.
> 
> I agree the consistency is important, I'm just not happy to see this
> spread further.
> 
> Tomas

Perhaps we should go with something like `--certout' instead, and
support `--certout' in addition to `--out' in host-show and
service-show, esentially deprecating `--out' for those commands.

Cheers,
Fraser