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`debug.enable()` flushes enabled namespaces

See original GitHub issue

Calling enable is disruptive to any enabled namespaces, which has changed in the recent minor version, caused by https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/pull/409

$ DEBUG=foo node -e 'var dbg = require("debug"); dbg.enable("bar"); console.log(dbg.enabled("foo"))'
=> false

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Created 7 years ago
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Comments:24 (10 by maintainers)

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Qix-commented, Oct 6, 2018

@mblarsen Definitely not a wontfix, it’s just a breaking change and requires a lot of work.

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geonanorchcommented, Mar 15, 2017

The new implementation allows full control (i.e. override of the original DEBUG settings), which seems desireable (even more in the context of changing this dynamically later on, see issue #433 ). I submit that the main problem here is that public method enable() is not documented. Actually debug lacks an API reference document – does obviously not prevent it from being appreciated and widely used, but makes integration with other tools more difficult…

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