Re: RFC -- new 'svn status' symbol

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

>So now we have wc directories possibly marked as "incomplete". When
>'svn up' sees this marker, it assumes the the list of entries is
>incomplete, and resorts to cvs-style reporting to the server: "assume
>I have nothing to start with, and here's what I *do* have."
>
>Anyway, it seems pretty important that 'svn status' print out some new
>symbol for incomplete directories. I mean, if I start a large
>checkout and interrupt it, 'svn status' currently says nothing about
>the working copy. It should tell me that the wc is only half-baked.
>
>Anyone have a new bikeshed^H^H^H^H^H^H symbol for 'svn st' to display
>for an incomplete directory? Maybe a '#'?
>
>... in fact, I'm guessing that a whole bunch of other subcommands
>probably need to notice the 'incomplete' flag on directories and just
>bail out. You probably don't want to commit from an incomplete dir,
>or do a directory propset, or start scheduling adds/deletes, and so
>on.
>
>

You can't put this symbol in the first column. Even if the directory is
incomplete, it can still be modified.

Hey -- we never *do* show an M in the first column for directories, do
we? The only modifications we show is prop mods, in the second column.
Hm, hm. Conceptually, a directory can be modified and conflicted, and we
never show those symbols...

Anyway, I still think this flag sbould not go into the first column. Put
it in column 5:

    S Switched
    I Incomplete
    Z Zonked -- switched and incomplete

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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