"bzr status" in a lightweight checkout

[John Szakmeister]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Eric Siegerman <lists08-bzr at davor.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 05:38 -0400, John Szakmeister wrote:
>> 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.
>
> That seems to me a huge misfeature of Subversion -- maybe because I only
> used svn for a few months, not long enough for it to warp my brain.
>
> If such a flag is added (no objection here), please *don't* use svn's
> odd behaviour as a guide to what its default value should be.

FWIW, Subversion is not alone in this.  CVS, Perforce (IIRC), and
several version control tools also do the same thing.  *shrug*

-John