new status output

[Jan Hudec]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 15:37:06 -0700, Robey Pointer wrote:
> 
> On 18 Oct 2005, at 15:02, Jan Hudec wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 13:36:12 -0700, Robey Pointer wrote:
> >>
> >>Just a reminder because this always makes me panic. :)
> >>
> >>Please don't use svn's cryptic
> >>    F Q  something.c
> >>     Z   foo.c
> >>    CY   bar.c
> >>notation.  We can afford to spell out words describing the status.
> >
> >added    foo.c
> >modified foo.h
> >added    bar.c
> >modified bar.h
> 
> Yeah, when this came up before, the column format was proposed.  I  
> just wanted to reiterate it because the mailing list keeps growing. :)

My problem with this is, that IMHO the single letters are faster to read
and easier to spot anomalies. Ie. it's quite fast to scan a list of 'M's
for 'C', while it's slower to scan a list of 'modified's for
'conflict's.

Um, thinking of it again, it'd be easier if they were capitalized:
Added      foo.c
Modified   foo.h
Added      bar.c
Conflicted bar.h

I'd say 'ignored' should not be capitalized to be visually more
distinct. Still, '~' for ignored and '?' for unknown are visually more
distinct.

> >Now someone's inevitably going to come with request to localize  
> >those names:
> >
> >přidán foo.c
> >změněn foo.h
> >přidán bar.c
> >změněn bar.h
> 
> Ahh, in fact, that's a great argument against using "A"/"G"/etc. :)  
> When they're meaningful at all, they're only meaningful to someone  
> well-versed in english.*  Whereas the full word "added" can be pasted  
> into babelfish for an instant translation.

... except you still need a machine parsable output, as this one is not.

Also I would *NOT* like this one. It is all a mess of letters and
accents and not really visually distinct.

> robey
> 
> * Actually I consider myself fluent in english (AMERICAN ENGLISH,  
> sjr!) and I still haven't got a clue what "G" stands for...  
> "gathered"? "grew"?

Their manual says it stays for "merGed". Yes, that is simply broken (CVS
used 'P' as "Patched" for that, which was both more logical and visually
distinct).

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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