Re: [Monotone-devel] basic_io inventory

[Thomas Keller]

Stephen Leake schrieb:
> Thomas Keller <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Stephen Leake schrieb:
>>
>>> I don't see many commands that take a fileid; the commands most
>>> interesting from an Emacs interface point of view just need the file
>>> path. So perhaps fileid output should be requested via an option, to
>>> save parsing time in the typical case.
>> Hrm... changing the output format by option is not that a good idea
>> IMHO. We should have one single format and stick with it. So, the
>> possible options here are: a) include the fileids or b) do not include
>> the fileids.
> 
> I'm new to this; can you explain why options that select output format
> are a bad idea?
>
> Another alternative, as Daniel Carosone pointed out, is a slightly
> different command name. Would that be acceptable?

IMHO its not worth to introduce a wholly new command which just mirrors
the behaviour of another and skips some of its output. The thing is that
if we found a proper format we shouldn't neither change it after every
few releases nor making it configurable, because if we do this with
everything this becomes unsupportable after some time. If including the
fileids into the output format is such a big issue for you, we can
probably just leave them out.

Thomas.

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