On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 06:01:54PM +1100, William Uther wrote:
> Hi,
> Currently mtn status doesn't list unknown files, you have to use
> mtn ls unknown to do that.
>
> Is there a reason for this? (Should I add it to the wishlist, or
> should I add it to the FAQ explaining why not to add it to the
> wishlist?)
The basic design tradeoff that other VCSes have made here is that
those that value UI over speed (e.g. darcs) list unknown files here,
and those that value speed over UI (e.g. hg) do not (because scanning
for unknown files is quite an expensive operation, you have to call
readdir() on everything).