Re: proposal: changelist feature

Thanks for the feedback, guys.

So yeah, we have a couple of big tensions here:

* streamy output vs. displaying grouped-changelists:

These are mutually exclusive goals. In the past, we've gone through
hell to make 'svn status' streamy, and benefits are huge: a massive
perception of speedup, and bounded memory use. I have to say, if
forced to choose, I think preserving the streamyness is more important
that displaying changelists as groups.

* not breaking existing parse-scripts too much

We've added columns to 'svn status' output in previous releases, so we
have precedent to add more things. But we'd like to do it in a way
that's as non-disruptive as possible. Adding a variable-length
changelist name after the path is pretty annoying, as epg pointed out.

I have to admit, I think I agree with Marc and Justin. Marc's
proposal allows us to to use a fixed-width column (which is very easy
on parsers), and also allows us to preserve streamyness.

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Received on Tue Apr 18 00:53:10 2006