bzr status: hiding shelf info if files are specified

[Martin Pool]

On 18 November 2011 07:37, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Francis Devereux <francis at devrx.org>
>> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:26:43 +0000
>> Cc: bazaar at lists.canonical.com
>>
>> On 17 Nov 2011, at 20:18, Robert Collins wrote:
>>
>> > What about when the shelve has a patch for the file specified?
>>
>> With my current code the shelf message won't be shown in this case.
>> Maybe we could scan the shelves looking to see whether any of them have a patch for the file specified, and if so print a message like "x shelves affect the files that you specified" or a letter (S?) next to the filenames themselves meaning "affected by shelves".
>
> Please don't make "bzr status" slower than absolutely necessary.  I
> think there's no particular reason why it should tell about shelves
> even when the file has changes in one of the shelves, and doing so
> would make the command slower.

+1, I mostly don't care if there's stuff on the shelf.  Add an option
(eg status.report_shelved_changes) defaulting to off.

Checking the shelf for changes to a particular file could be a useful
separate feature, though not one I would personally desire very
urgently.

-- 
Martin