[issue899] "C" status code considered harmful

[Eric S. Raymond]

New submission from Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com>:

The hg status codes are all upward compatible with Subversion's, except for the
use of "C" to mean a clean file.  This conflicts badly with Subversion's use odf
"C" to mean "conflict".  This objection has more force because Subversion codes
are a sort of de-facto standard now; bzr status --short emits them too.

This is a rarely-used status letter anyway; looks like it's only emitted with
the --clean option.  I suggest changing to something else -- maybe "=" would be
good.

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messages: 4728
nosy: esr
priority: wish
status: unread
title: "C" status code considered harmful

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