Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] Pull vc-list-files from gnulib, and update.

"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; 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.