Re: svn commit: rev 5949 - in trunk: doc/book/book subversion/clients/cmdline subversion/include subversion/libsvn_wc

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:20:59AM -0500, sussman@tigris.org wrote:
>...
> Mauve Bikeshed: show a "!" for incomplete dirs, just like missing
> items, so that users realize that 'svn up' needs to be run.
>
> [ People are still arguming, but let's try this out for a little
> while. If we come up with a different consensus, or if this causes
> disaster/confusion, we can always change it. ]

I think Jay's points about overloading this are *very* good. We should
choose a different symbol.

I have no opinion on *which* symbol, but overloading is Badness, IMO.

>...
> * svn_wc.h (enum svn_wc_status_kind): new 'incomplete' status enum.

To me, the fact that we can best model "incomplete" as a status leads me to
think it is a first-column marker, rather than sharing a column with the
"switched" state as Brane suggested.

>...
> * book/ch03.xml, ch08.xml: update book's description of '!', and what
> to do when you see it.

I don't think you should have done this, given the discussion. Assuming we
remove the overloading of the symbol, this stuff will completely change.
*shrug*

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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