From 41633f9f73f402714dccb4a7f379441ee8272619 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:26:07 +0200
Subject: Improved logging abstraction

This also gets rid of --log-type, since the nested log type isn't
useful in a multi-threaded situation, and nobody cares about the
"pretty" log type.
---
 doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common-syn.xml |  1 -
 doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common.xml     | 55 -------------------------------
 2 files changed, 56 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc')

diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common-syn.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common-syn.xml
index d65f4009ee6e..5b7936393951 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common-syn.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common-syn.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
 <arg><option>-K</option></arg>
 <arg><option>--fallback</option></arg>
 <arg><option>--readonly-mode</option></arg>
-<arg><option>--log-type</option> <replaceable>type</replaceable></arg>
 <arg><option>--show-trace</option></arg>
 <arg>
   <option>-I</option>
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common.xml
index c7e8ae1ed05f..bc26a90616e4 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common.xml
@@ -201,61 +201,6 @@
 </varlistentry>
 
 
-<varlistentry xml:id="opt-log-type"><term><option>--log-type</option>
-<replaceable>type</replaceable></term>
-
-  <listitem>
-
-  <para>This option determines how the output written to standard
-  error is formatted.  Nix’s diagnostic messages are typically
-  <emphasis>nested</emphasis>.  For instance, when tracing Nix
-  expression evaluation (<command>nix-env -vvvvv</command>, messages
-  from subexpressions are nested inside their parent expressions.  Nix
-  builder output is also often nested.  For instance, the Nix Packages
-  generic builder nests the various build tasks (unpack, configure,
-  compile, etc.), and the GNU Make in <literal>stdenv-linux</literal>
-  has been patched to provide nesting for recursive Make
-  invocations.</para>
-
-  <para><replaceable>type</replaceable> can be one of the
-  following:
-
-  <variablelist>
-
-    <varlistentry><term><literal>pretty</literal></term>
-
-      <listitem><para>Pretty-print the output, indicating different
-      nesting levels using spaces.  This is the
-      default.</para></listitem>
-
-    </varlistentry>
-
-    <varlistentry><term><literal>escapes</literal></term>
-
-      <listitem><para>Indicate nesting using escape codes that can be
-      interpreted by the <command>nix-log2xml</command> tool in the
-      Nix source distribution.  The resulting XML file can be fed into
-      the <command>log2html.xsl</command> stylesheet to create an HTML
-      file that can be browsed interactively, using JavaScript to
-      expand and collapse parts of the output.</para></listitem>
-
-    </varlistentry>
-
-    <varlistentry><term><literal>flat</literal></term>
-
-      <listitem><para>Remove all nesting.</para></listitem>
-
-    </varlistentry>
-
-  </variablelist>
-
-  </para>
-
-  </listitem>
-
-</varlistentry>
-
-
 <varlistentry><term><option>--arg</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></term>
 
   <listitem><para>This option is accepted by
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