"Bert Huijben" <b...@qqmail.nl> writes: >> From: Philip Martin [mailto:philip.mar...@wandisco.com] >> >> I'd like 'svn status' to start indicating when a working copy is >> sparse, probably by using 'P' like svnversion. It could also be used >> to indicate not-present nodes. > > Where would you like it to report that 'P'. On directories with depth < > svn_depth_infinity? > (Trying to think of a place where that makes sense)
Much the same way it reports 'S' for switched. > $ svn status > M subversion\libsvn_wc\update_editor.c > M subversion\libsvn_wc\wc-queries.sql > M subversion\libsvn_wc\wc_db.c > M subversion\libsvn_wc\wc_db.h > > Would that indicate a change on a directory? (Otherwise sparse directories > aren't even in the output of svn status) I think it's a bug that sparse directories are not in the output. How does one check whether a working copy is sparse or not? I can parse the output of 'svn info --recursive' but that's not ideal. > (Adding yet another column doesn't make things more understandable) I think it would have to be a new column. > > Maybe in svn status -v? Possibly. > svn info already reports sparse directories, but it currently has no way to > report excluded subdirectories and files. (Which I see as another kind of > sparse directories). And if we think of adding excluded as sparse, something > tells me that we should also look at absent. > > Just one thing: One of the major objectives of WC-NG is to make 'svn status' > noticeable faster. Adding more calculations to that might work in the > opposite direction. I don't think retrieving one more column is going to be significant. -- Philip
