showing shelf info with 'bzr status'

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 14:55 +0530, Parth Malwankar wrote:
> [bzr-grep]% ~/src/bzr.dev/403687-st-shows-shelve/bzr st
> modified:
>   INSTALL
> unknown:
>   x
> shelves:
>   1: <no message>
> 
> While the original report talks about showing per-file shelf information,
> just listing the shelves (or just indicating N shelves exist) seems like a
> reasonable fix to me that doesn't require too much change.
> 
> Vincent suggested that it may be good to discuss this change on the
> list as its a UI change. Currently, an S is used in the second column
> to indicate a shelf. The report and Vincents comment on the mp also
> suggests that it may be better to use a one line output, something
> like 'N shelves exist.' instead of listing the shelves. That seems fine
> to me. The user can then use 'bzr shelve --list' for actually viewing
> the shelves.
> 
> I would like to hear your thoughts and suggestions regarding this
> change.
I often have a lot of shelved changes (anywhere between 0 and 10 for
some of my trunk branches) and I would prefer not to see them when
running "bzr status" by default. Showing a single status line about e.g.
the number of shelves in "bzr status" seems reasonable enough though.

Cheers,

Jelmer