Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] feature plan -- Selected inventory

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>> 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