Re: [Monotone-devel] options for automate inventory

[Thomas Keller]

Stephen Leake schrieb:
> I'm adding options to 'automate inventory' to not output unknown,
> ignored, or unchanged files; these provide significant speed
> improvements. I'm not clear what the best names are.
>
> One issue is that 'automate stdio' doesn't handle options that don't
> take values; according to monotone.texi, the input format is:
>
>     'o' <string> <string> [ <string> <string> [ ... ] ] 'e'
>
> where the pair of strings is 'option name', 'value'.
>
> So the simple boolean options '--no-unknown' etc won't work with
> 'automate stdio'. Unless the second string can be zero length? I
> haven't tried that.

I just checked that neither

o20:ignore-suspend-certse l8:branchese

nor

o20:ignore-suspend-certs0:e l8:branchese

or

o20:ignore-suspend-certs1:1e l8:branchese

actually does what it should (in all cases the "wrong" option is just 
skipped).

> Changing 'automate stdio' to handle no-value options does not seem
> straight-forward.
>
> I'm planning to use '--unknown false', '--ignored false', '--unchanged
> false', with the default value of 'true' for each option.

I'm voting for teaching stdio to understand the o6:option0:e syntax.

Thomas.

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