Re: [Monotone-devel] basic_io inventory

[Thomas Keller]

Nathaniel Smith schrieb:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 09:46:30AM +0200, Thomas Keller wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Well, it should include what its consumers need, and you're a
> consumer...
>
> ...why the heck do you need file ids? :-)  They're hardly a useful
> thing to splat in a UI...

Oh, they are useful. I recently implemented a view in guitone to list 
"unaccounted renames", which tries to match unknown items in a workspace 
with missing ones, based on the fileid and name.

Now, in the current implementation I make a call to automate identify 
(which I implemented for this solely reason) - if the new inventory 
would already give them to me, I could save this part.

But again, I have no other strong vote for including these IDs other 
than "they're available and it doesn't make much more work to print them 
out with the rest of the stanzas".

Thomas.

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