Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: listing unknown directories

[Derek Scherger]

Bruce Stephens wrote:
> > As long as there is still as recursive version, I am happy.
>
> I think the default ought to be the recursive one (as it seems to be
> for other systems (those that I use, anyway)).  However, I've no idea
> whether either option is better in any objective sense.

subversion, for example, does not list the contents of unknown 
directories in its status output at least. Personally I like not seeing 
all of the gory details most of the time.

As far as optionally enabling/disabling recursive support goes, I'm not 
sure a --recursive option entirely makes sense. ls unknown is still 
generally recursive, just not in the case of unknown directories so I'm 
not sure what the option should be called.

Alternatively, perhaps a hook that controls this would be better as it 
appears that most people want the current behaviour by default and maybe 
the "don't list content of unknown directories" option is more of a 
workspace type setting that a option that you want to flip back and 
forth on.

> > Also for ls known and ls unknown, I would really like it if pathnames
> > were relative to the current directory, not the base directory, ie:
> >
> > address@hidden:~/tree/config/include$ mtn ls known .
> > include
> > include/config.sh
> > include/filter
>
> Jonathan Shapiro argued against that, based on some experience with
> OpenCM.  It annoys me, too, but I can see the arguments on both sides.
> It doesn't seem at all clear that what monotone does now is wrong.

Yeah, this has come up a few times and should be simple enough to 
implement. I'm curious to know what shap's objections would have been 
though. Do you have a link handy?

Cheers,
Derek