[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Inconsistency of Added-files and Removed-files

[Miles Bader]

Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:
>     > Me too:  tla-file-log
>
> Yeah, but..... I'll bet dollars to donuts that you guys are basing
> that on file names rather than inventory ids.  Which means that your
> commands are (currently) faster than they'd otherwise be, but also
> probably not entirely accurate (or, with alternative spin, are
> accurate but compute something kind of weird).

Yes, though tla-file-log does track renames in the patch-logs, so it
seems like the only case where it matters is if the file has an
uncommitted rename in the current tree.  That could maybe be handled
nicely with `tla changes | grep ...' or something.

-Miles
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