Re: svn stat on new files

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:

> Martin Pool <mbp@sngrel5.hp.com> writes:
>
> > People might call 'svn stat' on a file that doesn't exist yet. For
> > example, vc-svn (as currently designed) does this when you open a new
> > file in a directory that is controlled by Subversion. At the moment,
> > svn stat prints gives a blank status, as if the file was up to date,
> > which is misleading. It seems to me that it would be better for it to
> > either print '?', or at least give an error.
>
> I agree, 'svn stat nonexistent-file' should give an error. It's a bug
> that it prints the filename instead... it makes no sense. We should
> file an issue on that.

I prefer Martin's suggestion that it print '?'. If the file does not
exist, and does not have a .svn entry, then it is not under revision
control and '?' is the right status. (If it does have a .svn entry
then '!' will be dispayed.) I also suspect it will make 'svn status'
easier to use if it doesn't generate an error in this case.

-- 
Philip Martin
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