[PATCH V3] status: add terse option flag (issue4119)

Gilles Moris gilles.moris at free.fr
Fri Oct 16 00:54:13 CDT 2015


Le 15/10/2015 08:24, Sean Farley a écrit :
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Sean Farley <sean at farley.io>
> # Date 1427261050 25200
> #      Tue Mar 24 22:24:10 2015 -0700
> # Node ID 3dd7ff9879636256252dd87ddda204383fb5863e
> # Parent  a38924f7680c6b7d95e14ade999c35748c9dcafd
> status: add terse option flag (issue4119)
>
> Based on an idea by Martin Geisler, this patch adds the ability to abbreviate
> the ouput of status by only listing the parent directory for multiple files.
> Directories that only contain one file are not collapsed, though. By default,
> we do this for all status types but control this through the
> experimental.tersestatuses option.
I am wandering why we would not want this to be an argument of the 
option, with possibly a character like * (or another more  shell 
neutral) for everything. I would want sometimes reducing unknow, 
sometimes added, ...
Was there an argument for the config knob vs option with value?

Regards.
Gilles.
>
> Future work could speed up status operations even further by skipping disk
> operations based on this config.
>
>



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