bzr status

[David Cournapeau]

Ben Finney wrote:
> David Cournapeau <david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes:
>
>   
>> OTOH, the whole point of a relative status is that generally, when you
>> are inside a tree, you don't care so much about files "above" you.
>>     
>
> I don't find that to be the case at all. I find this attitude most
> prevalent in people who use Subversion, where the limitations of the
> system encourage arbitrary aggregation of directory trees that would
> be better tracked separately.
>   

I may have phrased it poorly: I certainly did not mean that for a *given
project*, you are always in a given subtree. But during development, it
is certainly current to only care about a subdirectory for a *given
period of time* (which may well change all the time, of course).

I never thought about this before using git, but at least I largely
prefer default view per subdirectory. It makes it easier to handle diff,
blame, etc... Basically everytime you need to give a path, you have it
from status. It is true that the git index (and not committing anything
by default which is not in there) makes it even more natural, though.

David