Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored

[Eric S. Raymond]

Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>:
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   > > Appended is a patch to make it work with svn.  This patch is kind of a
>   > > hack in that, if vc-status ever wants to support "non-terse" mode,
>   > > then the function will have to be rewritten (since "svn status" and
>   > > "svn status -v" have different formats).
>   > 
>   > If we introduce a new non-dired thingy, I suggest we don't even try to
>   > provide a non-terse mode.  There are so many more important features to
>   > add that we may as well decide from the get go that we'll never get to
>   > that one.
> 
> 100% agreement.

Seems reasonable to me as well, except -- do we really want to show all
uncontrolled files and have no option to suppress them?  

This is sticky, because we need them listed to select for register operations
but typically *don't* want them listed at other times.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>