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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] feature plan -- Selected inventory
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] feature plan -- Selected inventory |
Date: |
28 May 2004 17:55:25 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
>>>> There is no fundamental technical reason why Arch needs a full inventory
>>> I would say that file renaming/move detection seems a good fundamental
>>> technical reason for this isn't it ?
>> Huh?
>> Why would it need a full inventory to detect moves when I explicitly tell
>> it "show me the changes on files FOO1 and FOO2" (when both FOO1 and FOO2
>> are at the same place as ever) ?
> Right. Sometimes files will move from a selected directory to an unselected
> one, and that will be treated as deletion. That shouldn't be hard to deal
> with. Sometimes they'll move from unselected to selected, and that would be
> creation (of a file that already exists). Ugly.
It's trivial to see whether the addition is of a file that already exists:
check the list of IDs in the ,,index or ,,index-by-name file.
But it's irrelevant in the above situation where the user just wants to
see the changes done in FOO1 and FOO2 and neither file ha been moved.
Stefan
- [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] feature plan -- Selected inventory, Tom Lord, 2004/05/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] feature plan -- Selected inventory, Aaron Bentley, 2004/05/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] feature plan -- Selected inventory, Tom Lord, 2004/05/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] feature plan -- Selected inventory, Jason McCarty, 2004/05/29
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] feature plan -- Selected inventory, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/31
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] feature plan -- Selected inventory, Bug Goo, 2004/05/27