"bzr status" in a lightweight checkout

[Alexander Belchenko]

John Szakmeister пишет:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Andrew Bennetts
> <andrew.bennetts at canonical.com> wrote:
>> Martin Pool wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Alexander wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does `bzr status` check for `tree revision is not up-to-date with branch revision` condition?
>>> It does, though it could potentially do that by opening only the
>>> branch not the repository, which may be faster.
>> I suppose we could allow users to set a “don't check this tree is up-to-date”
>> flag too.  There's no .bzr/checkout/checkout.conf, but I suppose we could add
>> one (in a new format?), or perhaps just allow BranchReferenceFormat branches to
>> have a branch.conf with a single “status_checks_tree_is_up_to_date = false”
>> line?
> 
> It might be from years of using Subversion, but I don't expect status
> to tell me anything about whether I'm update to date with the branch.
> I only expect to get information about modifications to the working
> tree.  Perhaps we can borrow from Subversion here and pass a flag to
> status if we want that information?  Just a thought.
> 
> BTW, fixing this would also make using bzr-svn in a svn working copy
> more tolerable.

Just some thoughts. Maybe:

(by default) `bzr status` in lightweight checkout don't try to open 
branch/repository

`bzr status -v` does it.

Or maybe `bzr status --local` to prevent non-local access. (Because 
there is `bzr status --no-pending` to filter out information already).