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This is motivated by:
 - http://community.livejournal.com/evan_tech/270665.html
 - http://wiki.darcs.net/RosettaStone
 
Note that this would really only be resolved if http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1725
were fixed.  Stopping recursion into untracked directories would make the
output a good deal more readable.  The end result may still not exactly match
other VCS, but I don't think that's important.  The key is that darcs status
should do something useful and somewhat recognisable.

Whoever reviews this, I would welcome a grumpy response along the lines of "we
should avoid command/alias proliferation" even for hidden commands; or that
such a patch should not be accepted without discussion.

I wouldn't be sure how to respond to that, however, as I'm operating
exclusively on the short-term level of giving folks what they think they want
(which isn't always what they really want), and not on the long-term wiser
level of thinking about what the consequences of this will be.

Fri Feb 19 15:32:38 GMT 2010  Eric Kow <kowey@darcs.net>
  * Resolve issue182: hidden darcs status alias for darcs whatsnew -ls

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Mind reviewing this, Florent?  I got stuck trying to implement a little
(darcs whatsnew -s) notification, which just keeps getting chewed up by
round tuit shortage... also it's a suggestion that should really be made
separately with its own thinking.  I think we should just get this
"darcs status" thing unstuck

This now conflicts with HEAD.

1 patch for repository http://darcs.net/screened:

This is a very old patch in before the screening days, so I took the liberty of
resending it as an amended patch, rather than patch plus conflict resolution.

Maybe old habits just die hard.  I consider this sane enough to be pre-screened.

Wed Sep 15 22:05:19 BST 2010  Eric Kow <kowey@darcs.net>
  * Resolve issue182: hidden darcs status alias for darcs whatsnew -ls

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On 9/14/10 1:05 PM, Eric Kow wrote:
> Mind reviewing this, Florent?  I got stuck trying to implement a little
> (darcs whatsnew -s) notification, which just keeps getting chewed up by
> round tuit shortage... also it's a suggestion that should really be made
> separately with its own thinking.  I think we should just get this
> "darcs status" thing unstuck

I'm one of those "no gratuitous aliases!" types, or at least "let's have a policy, and document them".

Pro: "status" looks like it would smooth the way for a lot of new/infrequent darcs users. And it's consistent with the 
current de facto policy since we already have these hidden aliases: unadd, rm, mv, commit, resolve, log, list, query, 
transferMode, unpull, clone, gzcrcs.

Con: you don't want to have to maintain docs/tests/examples covering both commands. There'd be a chance that "whatsnew" 
gets diluted or deprecated at some point down the road.

The code changes look simple and good.

So I guess I'm a +0.9 for this one.

Grabbing as it's been on the review queue for a while. I think it looks 
reasonable. Anyone have any objections before I apply it?

Of course, a test would be nice :-)

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