Re: [Monotone-devel] basic_io inventory

[Stephen Leake]

Thomas Keller <address@hidden> writes:

> Stephen Leake schrieb:
>
>> I don't see many commands that take a fileid; the commands most
>> interesting from an Emacs interface point of view just need the file
>> path. So perhaps fileid output should be requested via an option, to
>> save parsing time in the typical case.
>
> Hrm... changing the output format by option is not that a good idea
> IMHO. We should have one single format and stick with it. So, the
> possible options here are: a) include the fileids or b) do not include
> the fileids.

I'm new to this; can you explain why options that select output format
are a bad idea?

Another alternative, as Daniel Carosone pointed out, is a slightly
different command name. Would that be acceptable?

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-- Stephe