[libvirt] virsh help keywords vs. command prefixes

Stefan Berger stefanb at us.ibm.com
Mon Jan 3 21:46:10 UTC 2011


libvir-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 01/03/2011 03:10:20 PM:

> From: Paul Jenner <psj at familyjenner.co.uk>
> To: libvir-list at redhat.com
> Date: 01/03/2011 03:17 PM
> Subject: [libvirt] virsh help keywords vs. command prefixes
> Sent by: libvir-list-bounces at redhat.com
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> >From a quick play with virsh from the 0.8.7 pre-release, as an end user
> I wonder if it may be more intuitive for the new help keywords to match
> the virsh command prefixes where they exist. For example "help nwfilter"
> would tell me about nwfilter- commands. Some keywords follow the prefix
> convention (nodedev, secret, snapshot, pool) but some do not (interface
> vs. iface-, filter vs nwfilter-, network vs. net-, volume vs. vol-).
> 
> Minor observation and close to release but I thought I would send on
> feedback to see what people thought.

We could introduce the 'help nwfilter' etc. as alias to the existing 
one(s).

  Stefan
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