Marking subrepos in 'hg status'

[Erik Zielke]

2010/10/11 timeless <timeless at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Erik Zielke <ez at aragost.com> wrote:
> > Yes. I also think that a special symbol for the subrepo line would make
> the
> > output more clear. Isn't the second option suggested already showing the
> > subrepo changes in the end? And a new subrepo line will mark the end of
> the
> > previous sub repository in the output.
>
> Along those lines, are there any characters which are reserved that we
> could abuse?
>
> Assuming there aren't...
>
>  $ hg status -S
>  M dir/x.txt
>  M sub/./a.txt
>  A dir/y.txt
>  A sub/./b.txt
>
> The fact that there's a /./ or something similar which shouldn't come
> in mercurial output normally (but which is harmless pathwise) would
> stand out (and thus might work).
>

Special symbol was a bad choice of words, since I just meant another
character than those already used to describe the status of each file, as
Didley suggested.

I am not sure that /./ will stand out enough to mark that the file is in a
subrepository.
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