[PATCH] Display symlink or executable bit with manifest -v

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Tue Oct 9 21:13:10 UTC 2007


On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:22:36PM +0200, Patrick M?zard wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas a ?crit :
> >Another thought that is probably nit-picking but may be useful, is that
> >I think we should reuse the file-type letters of Solaris packaging or
> >something similar, instead of inventing a new set of file type letters.
> >If we do, we can output something similar to:
> >
> >    644 f a
> >    755 f b/a
> >    644 s l
> 
> Sounds more consistent to me, easier to understand and maybe to parse 
> than the single whitespace. I have no opinion on the symbols to use.

For the record, the @ and * symbols come from ls -F.

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