Re: [Monotone-devel] basic_io inventory (was xmtn: Emacs integration via DVC)

[Thomas Keller]

Daniel Carosone schrieb:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 07:03:36PM +0200, Christian Ohler wrote:
> > The reason why xmtn doesn't have a proper implementation of dvc-status 
> > yet is that xmtn doesn't have a parser for mtn automate inventory; I was 
> > hoping to be able to use a basic_io variant of automate inventory 
> > instead (since xmtn has a basic_io parser).  The code for a basic_io 
> > variant of automate inventory exists on a branch but has unfortunately 
> > never been finished.
>
> That's a perfectly reasonable stance.  What's left to be done to
> finish the inventory-as-basic_io stuff?  ISTR it was basically done,
> and essentially pending some kind of consensus or mandate that folks
> were happy with the new format, right?

The new format is almost set in stone, whats basically missing are 
tests, documentation and a code cleanup.

Wrt the new format, the following open questions remain:

a) should there be a more explicit rename marker in the new format than 
the rather implicit node ids? I think, yes, because for the 
path-/depth-restricted output we can't tell the exact state of the item 
(is it only dropped, or actually renamed?)

b) Since we already have those data in place: I'd vote for including the 
old and new fileid in the stanzas (where applicable)... this saves 
additional calls to automate identify or automate get_manifest_of for 
the interface programmer.

Thomas.

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