Re: [Monotone-devel] speed of "mtn ls branches"

[William Uther]

On 18/01/2008, at 7:25 AM, Daniel Carosone wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:36:39PM +1100, William Uther wrote:
> >         B) 'mtn ls branches --ignore-suspend-certs' will behave as  
> > in i).
> >            All branches will be returned, including those with
> >            invalid branch certs - Dr Zarkon's plan will succeed.
> >            While incorrect, this will be significantly faster than
> >            current behaviour.  It is also a behaviour that monotone
> >            had for a long time.
>
> So, we need a word that describes both "invalid" branches and
> "suspended" or "inactive" branches.  I can't, just at the moment,
> think of a good one, so for the purposes of argument, lets call them
> "zarkonian" branches.  Is this, then, just a matter of renaming the
> option to --allow-zarkonians?

That option is a global option that affects a number of commands, not  
just
'ls branches'.  Is it only when used with 'ls branches' that is has this
special meaning.  Because of that I don't think you want to rename  
it.  It
might be worth adding something to the 'ls branches' help text though.

Cheers,

Will        :-}