[PATCH] status: add option to show status of files in subrepos

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 08:32 +1200, David Mitchell wrote:
> Thanks Matt,
> 
> 
>         One of the common complaints about subrepos is
>         that it's not obvious when a subrepo is modified so commit's
>         recursive
>         behavior bites people. So it's not clear that:
>         
>         M foo
>         M sub/bar
>         
>         really gives people enough notice that it's a subrepo that's
>         changed.
>         But then:
>         
>         M foo
>         M subrepo/
>         
>         is just weird, so maybe your way is right after all. Opinions?
> 
> 
> I think perhaps it would make sense to introduce some sort of
> convention for this, I don't think the current forms are expressive
> enough. Something similar to one of these perhaps:
> 
> 
> M foo
> M (sub)/bar
> M baz/(sub2)/qux
> 
> 
> A little arcane, so maybe:
> 
> 
> M foo
> S sub M bar
> S baz/sub2 M qux

Yuck! Let's do it the way you had originally for now.


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