FEATURE REQ: group common commands under 'ls' instead of separate commands

[Jan Hudec]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 01:02:26 +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> writes:
> 
> | No, inventory doesn't tell you anything about the repo.  It only tells
> | you about the state of files in the working tree, i.e. whether they're
> | versioned, ignored, or unknown.  
> |
> | I like that saying about 'as simple as possible, but no simpler'.  If
> | status listed the same data as inventory, it would be too long to be
> | useful.  The two kinds of state are really quite different,
> 
> But in the end the idea is to show list of files and inventory does
> that too. The end user is interested in "what state they are" and it's
> quite surprising that status command does not show the files in the
> repository.

No, it's not. Status does *NOT* list files---it summarizes changes! Status on
a clean checkout always produces an empty output. That's the way it's meant
and useful. In short, status talks about changes while inventory talks about
list of files.

> This is unlike CVS and Subversion and causes lot of confusion. At
> least it did for me.

Subversion does not have inventory, nor any equivalent of it's functionality,
and I miss it from time to time.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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