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

[hendrik]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:24:49PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Moschny <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Thomas> On Wednesday 29 November 2006 07:43, Derek Scherger wrote:
>     >> 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.
> 
>     Thomas> Maybe --force? You tell mtn to list something, it refrains
>     Thomas> from recursing into unknown directories, but you can force
>     Thomas> it to do so.
> 
> Another issue (sorry if this has already been raised) is that
> currently (correct me if I am wrong) "mtn ls unknown" will recurse
> into known and unknown directories to find unknown files.

I guess I don't understand the issue.
Wouldn't an unknown directory always contain unknown files?
Isn't it enough to know that the entire directory tree starting there is 
unknown?  Or is there something I am missin?

-- hendrik
 
> 
> Hence, it is more like a
> 
> "mtn find unknown"
> 
> operation.
> -- 
> Brian May <address@hidden>
> 
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