non-recursive status of a directory?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Talden wrote:
|>>> but regardless, I'm a little confused by your position.  Is it:
|>>>
|>>> * tbzr doesn't need, or even *want* non-recursive status, and while
|>>> you think it does you don't understand the problem.
|>>>
|>>> or
|>>>
|>>> * bzr doesn't provide non-recursive status, and its such an obscure
|>>> requirement it is unlikely to do so in the short term.  Please make
|>>> alternative arrangements.
|>>>
|>>> or something else?
|>> Its: 'directories are a poor proxy for dividing work up within the
|>> system'.
|> That is the same as the first option: while your statement is correct in
|> the general case, this isn't the general case.  I maintain that for tbzr,
|> it *is* a more appropriate option.  If you think it is productive to
|> continue thrashing out the tbzr design until that becomes evident to you
|> (or conversely, it becomes evident to me how we can be as efficient
|> without it) then I will reluctantly do so.  On the other hand, if it can
|> be accepted that tbzr would benefit from non-recursive status updates,
|> the question simply becomes whether tbzr can have that facility, and if
|> so, how.
|
| I agree that this special-case is a justification for the feature.
| Our project of 22,000 files in nearly 3,600 folder definitely benefits
| from tsvn's approach - waiting for a full status would be
| excruciating.  At no time is a significant proportion of the folders
| or the files in an explorer view - being able to short-circuit the
| scan, though more work overall to establish status of everything, is
| beneficial when only needing the status of the small sampling of the
| source tree.
|
| There is also no question that the complete status operation of bzr
| performs well in comparison to svn, but given that our developers
| often turn off the recursive folder status in tsvn to make explorer
| more responsive I would hope the faster status in bzr would translate
| to faster status in explorer as well.  Being just as good as tsvn
| isn't itself a worthy goal if the opportunity to beat it is sitting
| right there in front of us.
|
| --
| Talden
|
|

On a Mozilla tree with 55,000 files 'bzr status' was taking 2 seconds. I don't
consider that excruciating.

John
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