new status output

[Jan Hudec]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:09:39 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 08:50 +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> That pre-supposes you know exactly what you're looking for ... I still
> have to reach for the documentation every *damned* time I use subversion
> because it manages to find some new character to throw at me, or move it
> across one column to mean something magically different.

Subversion is exceptionally complicated in this respect. It has too many
states and stuff to print. Bzr won't have that many things to print.

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