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Re: RFC -- new 'svn status' symbol

From: <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-05-15 07:01:42 CEST

Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> writes:

> On Wed, 14 May 2003 cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
>
> > John Barstow <John_Barstow@gfsg.co.nz> writes:
> >
> > > > Anyone have a new bikeshed^H^H^H^H^H^H symbol for 'svn st' to display
> > > > for an incomplete directory? Maybe a '#'?
> > >
> > > Off the top of my head, I like 'X'. The '#' is confusing because I never
> > > know what to call it - depending on your state of mind, it's a
> > > pound/hash/number/sharp symbol. (The last one is more for musicians than
> > > Microsofties).
> >
> > Oh, don't use 'X' please. I was considering using that for the
> > display of svn:eXternals stuff.
> It should be an incomprehensible high ascii symbol, since you have an
> incomprehensible working base.

Haha!

Seriously, though, is there any reason not to overload the '!' to mean
both "missing" and "incomplete" ? Both indicate a problem that is
solved using 'svn up'.

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