new status output

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Wed Oct 19 16:06:06 BST 2005


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Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 15:49:52 +0200, Wouter van Heyst wrote:
>>Also have a look at clean-tree in bzrtools.

> That may do the | xargs rm case, but it won't do the | xargs
> whatever-script case. And besides, it is the _wrong_ approach to it. The
> pipe is the right approach -- don't invent new tools when there is such
> a powerfull shell already.

Respectfully disagree.  This is a common operation that's worth making
easy, and bzr clean-tree is easier than |xargs, not to mention more
correct, because it handles files with spaces and newlines properly.

Also, bzr is supposed to work on windows, where shell scripting is much
weaker.

Aaron
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