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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question
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Jonathan S. Shapiro |
Subject: |
Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question |
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Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:25:10 -0400 |
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 22:50 +0200, Thomas Moschny wrote:
> On Friday 04 August 2006 22:25 Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > For example, the "mtn status" command gives status for
> > every file in the project. If this output was PWD-relative, you would
> > get things like:
> >
> > [M] fred.c
> > [D] ../baz/mumble.c
> >
> > which would be confusing. Worse, the answer differs depending on your
> > current directory, which was really confusing.
>
> I fail to see why this would be confusing, especially in your example, as the
> existance of '..'-style paths would show me *immediately* hat the output
> cannot be relative to the wd's root.
Try it on a 20,000 file project and then see what you think.
The fact that the output is context dependent is also a problem.
This is not a place where there is a right answer for all cases -- which
is why it generates so much back and forth in discussions.
shap
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question, (continued)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question, Thomas Keller, 2006/08/04
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question, Koen Kooi, 2006/08/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question, Alex Queiroz, 2006/08/04
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question, Koen Kooi, 2006/08/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question, Thomas Keller, 2006/08/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/08/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/08/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question, Thomas Moschny, 2006/08/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/08/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question, Thomas Moschny, 2006/08/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question,
Jonathan S. Shapiro <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question, Thomas Moschny, 2006/08/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question, Alex Queiroz, 2006/08/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/08/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question, Timothy Brownawell, 2006/08/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/08/04
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question, Bruce Stephens, 2006/08/04
bug in 'mtn add' (was Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question), Nathaniel Smith, 2006/08/04
Re: [Monotone-devel] Scalability question, Timothy Brownawell, 2006/08/04