(controversial) Renaming 'bzr' => 'bz'

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 21:16 -0700, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:

> There are plenty of other usability issues which could get
> some attention instead.  One example for me:
> 
> bzr status
> 
> has several different sections, which can include at least
> removed, added, modified, unknown.  Each one of these should
> have a matching bzr command which has output usable by other 
> commands. "bzr unknowns" works, although to match should be 
> named "unknown" (or status output changed to "unknowns"). 
> "bzr removed" doesn't work, we need to say "bzr deleted". 
> Why are these different? "bzr ignored", not represented by a
> "status" section, does not have usable output (I can't do 
> "rm `bzr ignored`" because it has the rule along with the 
> filename; that's okay but should be an option, not the default).

What do you think of having bzr ls be the preferred way to query these
individual things? e.g.

bzr ls --ignored
bzr ls --removed

?

ls is designed as a scripting interface, so its not going to list the
rules for ignored files by default, and so on in other situations where
this would matter.

-Rob
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