new status output

Martin Pool martinpool at gmail.com
Wed Oct 26 01:39:39 BST 2005


On 25/10/05, James Blackwell <jblack at merconline.com>

> > # whished
> > $ bzr status
> > unknown:
> >   bar
> >   foo
> > $ bzr status --unknown | xargs bzr add
>
> I dislike this format. Its difficult to progmatically parse without a state engine.

Because of the headings?

I'd prefer 'bzr ls --unknowns' to give just the filenames in the
specified class, suitable for scripting.

> Btw, you'll get in trouble with xargs in that one if there's any filenames
> with spaces. For what you're trying there, how about bzr add "*" ?

If you just want to add all unknown files, then "bzr add" will do it,
and "bzr add DIR" will add everything below a directory.

--
Martin




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