Not being sure I understood your approach completely, and without knowing fossil’s internals, but knowing that it uses SQL for a lot of its work, I think that mostly the related SQL would have to change.
I believe a simple loop approach would just print FINFO for each file separately before processing the next one, right? But that would be out of historic order. The idea is to get the history of all matched files in the correct order, so if files A and B change, you want a display like this: A B A A B not this: A A A B B From: Stephan Beal Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 10:59 AM To: Fossil SCM user's discussion Subject: Re: [fossil-users] FINFO suggestion On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Tony Papadimitriou <to...@acm.org> wrote: Would that be too much programming effort to add? I.e., check if ‘filename’ is a directory and in that case return FINFO for all associated files. If it weren't for the -status and -print options, it would require only another loop around the bottom part of the finfo code, but as it is i think it requires moving all of finfo into another routine, then calling that from a loop in finfo. Somewhere we've got SQL code for the filename vs dir part. It looks like the next step would then be to allow multiple files (because at some point you'll just want to see the .c files, not the .h ones, and you'll want to pass src/*.c). That would change the semantics of current behaviour, though: a) currently it is fatal to pass a non-tracked file to finfo. b) when passing wildcards like dirname/*, it's going to happen fairly often that untracked files will be picked up, and it would arguably be silly to error out there. Remember that the wildcards get expanded before finfo gets them, so it cannot distinguish between wildcard expansions and other user input. Suggestions? i've got to log in to work in a few minutes, but will take a look at the first step (passing only one arg, but either a file or dir) after work. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
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