Comment 4 for bug 210938

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 22:44 +0000, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> I know that ls/inventory lists versioned files and ignored will list the
> ignored files.
>
> This is more an "ortogonal functionality" problem: if status can tell me
> that a file is unknown or added, why shouldn't it show me that a file is
> flagged as versioned/not-changed?
>
> I found my self doing "bzr status -v dir/foo/bar" and receiving an empty
> message: what does that mean? That there is no status? Is it ignored? Is
> it unchanged since the last revision? I was expecting to see a
> reassuring "non changed: dir/foo/bar" message instead of nothing.
>
> I know that there are going to be a lot of versioned files. This is why
> I'm suggesting to show that status only with --verbose or with an ad-hoc
> (--all-statuses) flag.

Someone else had the same confusion recently; they wanted the equivalent
of 'svn info path';

-Rob

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