Re: why does "svn status" output anything for unchanged externals

kfogel@collab.net:
> Daniel Schlyder <daniel@bitblaze.com> writes:
>> Why does "svn status" output anything at all for unchanged externals?

> I think the idea was to remind people that they have externals present
> -- since not every command recurses automatically. Similar to the "?"
> marker in status output, which reminds you you might need to 'svn add'
> a file.

Okay, I guess that makes sense. I'd like to suggest that the output per
external is reduced, though. Presuming "foo" in "core" and "bar" in "external2"
has changed, "svn st" might output:

$svn st
M foo

X external2
M external2/bar

X external1
X external3
X external4

In other words, have all actual changes described first, and not print
duplicate lines for each external (i.e. not both the "X" lines and then the
"performed status on..." lines).

Kind regards,
Daniel Schlyder

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Received on Wed Jan 21 20:43:48 2004