[RFC] Update should mention WHAT it is up to date with

[John Arbash Meinel]

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John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> 
>>> Is there a bzrlib function to take a branch.base URL and shorten it (for
>>> example, file:/// URLs could have the URL prefix removed)?  Should we try to
>>> use "." in the shortened form if possible?
>> Generally things like that would be in urlutils.  There are functions
>> to turn a url into a local path if possible.
> 
>> There was a thread a while ago about a display_url or human_url but I
>> don't think it was implemented.   Would be nice.  You could always add
>> a stubby implementation ("return url") to start with.
> 
> 
> urlutils.unescape_for_display(url, output_encoding)
> 
> so
> 
> out_path = urlutils.unescape_for_display(url, self.outf.encoding)
> self.outf.write('Updating from %s\n' % (out_path,))

^- I should mention that the reason this function takes an encoding, is
because you can have a url that includes escape unicode chars that won't
fit in the output encoding.

This generally only happens on Windows (places where the encodings are
UTF-8). But I can have a branch named جوجو, which as a URL is

file:///C:/dev/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%88/

If the output was UTF-8, then this would get decoded to
C:/dev/جوجو

However, if the output was latin-1, then it would stay as a file:/// url.

John
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