bzr update: Use (G) instead of (M) on merge?

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Sun Sep 2 16:19:00 BST 2007


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Jari Aalto wrote:
> Running:
> 
>     bzr update
> 
> Produces modified results:
> 
>      M  changelog
>      M  control.in
>      M  rules
>     All changes applied successfully.
>     Updated to revision 176.
> 
> For me this is a little disorienting, since I'm actaully asking
> a merge from repository. Would it be possible that on
> 'update', the 'M' flags would show instead e.g. mer(G)ed:

A merge can change far more than file contents.  If we changed M to G,
we would have to change all the letters and symbols in that output as
well.  I think it is far simpler to just remember that merge tells you
what *it* changed, not what *you* changed.

Aaron
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