RE: [Monotone-devel] status --brief

[Zakirov, Salikh]

> Of all the hashes in the non-brief version, the only one the user
> should ever have to deal with is the old_revision hash; the rest are
> important internally, but should never be needed in the UI.  This
> suggests to me that perhaps the --brief output should include this
> information too, like:
> 
>   $ monotone status --brief
>   base revision is 0eeeb4e965391e033164b755dd9549d8a777c55f
>   patched ChangeLog
>   $ 
> 
> What do you think of this format?

It would be nice to include the default branch information too, i.e.
what branch does the base revision belong to, and what branch will the
change be committed to by default.

Now, I've developed a habit of doing 'cat MT/options' before each
commit, to make sure I'm doing commit to the right branch, and, more
importantly, from the base revision on the right branch.

--
Salikh, a grateful user of Monotone.