"Murdock, Scott" schrieb:
> I find it useful for status to show files that are new in the repository
> and don't yet exist in the sandbox, but as far as I can tell status will
> only do this if you give it the name of the new-in-repository file, so
> you have to already know about it. It's an easy change to add an
> option so status will find and show such files - in cvsstatus() just add
> W_REPOS to the which argument to start_recursion().
>
> 1. are there pitfalls here, or reasons not to do this?
Don't know, sorry.
> 2. what character would make sense for this new option, eg -a for "all"?
> -r for "repository" is logical except for the widespread use of -r for
> specifying revisions.
What about -d (corresponding to its meaning in cvs update)?
Seems also to be unused in cvs annotate and cvs history, which I personally
would put into the same "class" of cvs commands (i.e. for retrieving
information about cvs files).
Regards
Martin
