Re: status code philosophy

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
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> QUERY 1: Does this make sense to people?

Why not just always show both codes? I don't see one extra (meaningful)
character in the output as being problematic.

[...snip]

> QUERY 2: Will we ever see anything other than a '-' in the first
> field of a directory's status line?

Absolutely. Additions and removals, modify the contents of the
directory, and conflicts can arise. They should be marked.

> Specifically, a conflict over what the directories contents ("text") should be?

Two additions of the same file should conflict; likewise removal vs.
modification. That could be all, I guess (two different renames are
property conflicts on the renamed node, not the containing directory).

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