Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] Pull vc-list-files from gnulib, and update.
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
> Now that I've added the vc-list-files script to gnulib,
> this patch makes libvirt's bootstrap pull it from there.
>
> Changes from the previous version of the script:
>
> I reintroduced support for mercurial (only lightly tested),
> and rearranged the directory-existence tests so git is first.
Bit unclear - what do we actually use this script for?
Hi Rich,
It's used only in the "make syntax-check" rules in Makefile.maint.
> +elif test -d .hg; then
> + exec hg locate "$dir/*"
'hg manifest' command does the same thing.
Yes, it's similar.
Unfortunately, using "hg manifest" (which this script did use
up until about a year ago) is problematic, since its output
format changed at some point between 0.9.2 and 0.9.5.
But then, I'm hardly a mercurial expert. If someone can tell me of a
better way to make hg report just the names of version controlled files
in a given directory, portably, I'll be happy to adapt.