Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] feature plan -- Selected inventory

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Jason McCarty <address@hidden>

    > Tom Lord wrote:
    > > Suppose that I have a selection specification that picks out a subset
    > > of the ORIG tree and my MOD tree.  Sure, I could `inventory' keeping
    > > that selection spec in mind and, if the selection spec doesn't have
    > > any id-based rules, avoid inventorying all of ORIG or MOD.

    > > But now if I'm computing a changeset:  files may appear in the
    > > selected part of MOD that were absent in ORIG or they may be ORIG but
    > > not in MOD.   Are those adds and deletes?  Or are they renames from
    > > and to some non-selected part of the tree?   The only way to tell is
    > > to inventory all of ORIG and all of MOD.

    > But we can easily detect when a full inventory is necessary and only do
    > it if needed, no? 

I don't think so because a related condition that you want to be
warned about is an inventory id that is duplicated between the
selection and the rest of the tree.

-t