Plans for Bazaar

[Martin (gzlist)]

On 26/05/2017, Tom Browder <tom.browder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm a long-time (since early 2009), non-power user who has asked (a
> good while ago) for an option, or config variable, or plugin, to show
> file listing relative to the current directory as git status does. I
> was told that no one would use such a thing, but I could write my own
> plugin. I asked if anyone would help me get started but got no
> response.

Reading over the discussion in this thread:

<https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2013q3/075655.html>

I don't have strong feelings. Am not averse to just making this kind
of compatibility change before release. Perhaps Matthew can persuade
otherwise?

The other option that seems sane to me is global configuration for it,
as mbp had suggested in the bug:

<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/30159>

Per-command flags or a plugin seem like worse ideas.

> It still seems to me that it's a good feature to have, and, with a bit
> of pointing to a starting place, maybe I could help.

A good start would be some detailed stories of how you use status that
motivate the change.

One thing I've wanted the last few days is a good way to pipe all
modified filenames to xargs vi, which status is not really the right
tool for. Would make these semi automated changes where I need to look
over 20+ files easier.

Martin