html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,user_label,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,issue_label,performed_via_github_app
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/675#issuecomment-590593247,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/675,590593247,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDU5MDU5MzI0Nw==,141844,aviflax,2020-02-24T23:02:52Z,2020-02-24T23:02:52Z,NONE,"> Design looks great to me.

Excellent, thanks!

> I'm not keen on two letter short versions (`-cp`) - I'd rather either have a single character or no short form at all.

Hmm, well, anyone running `datasette package` is probably at least somewhat familiar with UNIX CLIs… so how about `--cp` as a middle ground?

```shell
$ datasette package --cp /the/source/path /the/target/path data.db
```

I think I like it. Easy to remember!","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",567902704,--cp option for datasette publish and datasette package for shipping additional files and directories,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/675#issuecomment-590405736,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/675,590405736,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDU5MDQwNTczNg==,141844,aviflax,2020-02-24T16:06:27Z,2020-02-24T16:06:27Z,NONE,"> So yeah - if you're happy to design this I think it would be worth us adding.

Great! I’ll give it a go.



> Small design suggestion: allow `--copy` to be applied multiple times…

Makes a ton of sense, will do.

> Also since Click arguments can take multiple options I don't think you need to have the `:` in there - although if it better matches Docker's own UI it might be more consistent to have it.

Great point. I double checked the docs for `docker cp` and in that context the colon is used to delimit a container and a path, while spaces are used to separate the source and target.

The usage string is:

```text
docker cp [OPTIONS] CONTAINER:SRC_PATH DEST_PATH|-
docker cp [OPTIONS] SRC_PATH|- CONTAINER:DEST_PATH
```

so in fact it’ll be more consistent to use a space to delimit the source and destination paths, like so:

```shell
$ datasette package --copy /the/source/path /the/target/path data.db
```

and I suppose the short-form version of the option should be `cp` like so:

```shell
$ datasette package -cp /the/source/path /the/target/path data.db
```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",567902704,--cp option for datasette publish and datasette package for shipping additional files and directories,