non-recursive status of a directory?

[Mark Hammond]

> What will happen with renames ? specifically given:
> root/left/
> root/right/
> root/right/was-in-left/
> root/right/was-in-left/child
> 
> the status on left is not completed until right has been scanned (and
> such scanning is triggered by bzr recursing from left's record to
> right/was-in-left.
> 
> or are you planning to stop at the first sign of a modification?

Moves are tricky.  We are severly constrained by how much information we can convey using simple icon overlays.  So its probably helpful to think of this as a kind of "UI State", rather than the true "BZR Status" of an item.  In other words, the question here is more "what icon will we show in the case of a move" rather than "what is the true status after a move".  I expect that the tortoise menus would include a command that shows the "true" status of a directory tree in a dialog, and that command would just use bzrlib directly and allow it to recurse.

So to answer your question, I think that TBZR would probably show the 'left', 'right' and 'was-in-left' directories as modified, and 'child' as 'added (or ideally, we could have a new overlay specifically indicating "new file as result of move".)  Does that sound appropriate?  What icons would you expect to see in the above example?

Cheers,

Mark