Re: [RFC] UI to show a summary of problems after merge etc. (incl. tree conflicts)

Julian Foad wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 22:08 +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>> Julian Foad wrote on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 at 15:46 +0100:
>>> [[[
>>> $ svn st
>>> C A/D/G
>>> ? C A/D/G/rho
>>> D C A/D/G/pi
>>>
>>> $ svn st --conflicts)
>>> ? C (D>M) A/D/G/rho
>>> D C (M>D) A/D/G/pi

Wow, I didn't actually know we have this! That's very nice.

>>> ]]]
>>>
>> What additional information does the 'C' column provide? (It's already
>> clear that a node is in tree conflict because it has the little arrow.)
>
> In this case, it doesn't provide more info. The idea is that the first
> three colums repeat the "Text status, Prop status, Tree conflict status"
> fields from a normal "svn status", and then the part in parentheses
> gives more info.
>
> Maybe the tree-conflict 'C' column is redundant, or maybe in the general
> case where different kinds of conflict shown it would be useful.
>
> - Julian
>
>
>>> Here, "(D>M)" means "an incoming Delete onto an existing Modified node".
>>>
>>> In this patch, this indication is coded on the assumption that it's a
>>> tree conflict, but I feel the command ought to show all kinds of problem
>>> mentioned above.

What would normal conflicts look like? Let's have a mixed example:

$ svn st --conflicts
C A/D/zeta
? C (D>M) A/D/G/rho
D C (M>D) A/D/G/pi
 C A/D/G

Well, it looks like the third C is really redundant, since tree-conflicts
have the whole bracket thing while others don't.

How about compressing it to this, gaining four columns of space for path
strings:

$ svn st --conflicts
C A/D/zeta
? D>M A/D/G/rho
D M>D A/D/G/pi
 C A/D/G

Btw, isn't this one the wrong way around:

? D>M A/D/G/rho

The ? says rho is unversioned (?), so I guess the D took place in the local
working copy. I guess, `update' wanted to modify it. So shouldn't that be
M>D? Then again, what's this:

D M>D A/D/G/pi

Why am I not getting this...

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