Why does "view" not allow wildcards?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au>
>> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:29:40 +1100
>>
>> If you don't want to rely on the current working tree, you might instead
>> find it useful to process the output of ‘bzr inventory’::
>>
>>     $ bzr view --name changelogs $(bzr inventory | grep 'ChangeLog')
> 
> Can someone please explain the subtle differences between "bzr ls" and
> "bzr inventory"?
> 
> TIA
> 
> 

'bzr ls' was designed from the beginning to be shell-friendly
(supporting stuff like --null). It was also believed that we would
transition away from stuff like 'bzr inventory'.

So I would recommend using 'bzr ls', and feedback of where it is
incomplete (espec, vs bzr inventory) is invited.

John
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