Re: Status behaviour

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:56:26PM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Kevin Pilch-Bisson <kevin@pilch-bisson.net> writes:
>
> > 2) If you run svn status on a non-versioned item, you get an error. That
> > is what one would expect, except for the following use case. It would be
> > nice sometimes to run svn status -un *, so that you get a shallow glimpse of
> > the current directory and its children. The problem is that if * includes
> > non versioned items, you get an error.
>
> I experience this use-case all the time, actually. I've gotten in the
> habit of running 'svn status -uvn'. I guess this won't show
> unversioned items. But then again, I never really want to see them
> either. :-)
>
Right. It currently will only work on things that are in the entries file.
The problem comes in when you specifically ask for the status of a file that
is not versioned (most commonly in the wildcard case).

We could have it print the ?, or print nothing. Currently it errors out though
which I don't think we want.

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