Trent,

Michael Shulman <shulman@mathcamp.org> writes:
> In "darcs record" interactive mode, what is the difference in behavior
> between "s" and "d", and between "f" and "a", and what exactly does
> "w" do?

Check that these commands are adequately documented in the user manual
and/or in the appropriate --help strings.  Obviously they should already
be documented by the `?' key at the same prompt...

Additional remarks from darcs-users.

Michael Shulman <shulman@mathcamp.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Max Battcher<me@worldmaker.net> wrote:
>>> w: wait and decide later, defaulting to no
>>> s: don't record the rest of the changes to this file
>>> f: record the rest of the changes to this file
>>> d: record selected changes, skipping all the remaining changes
>>> a: record all the remaining changes
>>
>> The particular keywords that stand out between 's', 'f' and 'd', 'a'
>> are the words "this file" and "all". If pondering that still doesn't
>> make things clear, let me know.
>
> Thank you, that does.  It would be more obvious to me if the
> descriptions of 's' and 'f' ended with something like "and go on to
> the next file" and the descriptions of 'd' and 'a' ended with
> something like "in all files."
>
> I still don't understand what 'w' does.  If I select 'w' for something
> in interactive record, will I get prompted for it again?