bzr status order

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Martin Pool wrote:
> On 10/03/07, Nicholas Allen <nick.allen at onlinehome.de> wrote:
>> The advantage is that removed and unknown are listed last and together
>> so that if a file has been moved by an external tool (e.g. Eclipse) you
>> have the list of files that bzr thinks is removed and unknown so that
>> you can copy and paste them easily into "bzr mv" commands to tell bzr
>> that they were moved.
>>
>> I find I do this quite often and the current order has the removed files
>> first so they are as far away from the unknowns as possible. If you have
>> a few modified or added files then you have to scroll up and down in the
>> terminal to do this. Listing them last would most likely make this not
>> necessary and would certainly minimize the scrolling as much as possible
>> instead of maximizing it...
> 
> I see what you mean.  Actually Robert has spoken of changing to
> ordering them by filename, so that we can output all the changed files
> together as we scan each directory.
> 

That makes sense for the short form, but not as much for the grouped form.

I don't really care what the order is, I think it is fairly arbitrary.
Though if I remember there was once a request to put the unknowns near
the 'added' so that when you add an unknown it doesn't jump around much.
Then again, maybe you want them far away, so they are more obviously
distinct.

Nicholas's sort order seemed reasonable, though.

John
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