[aur-dev] [PATCH] git-serve: Add out-of-date status to list-repos

Lukas Fleischer lfleischer at archlinux.org
Tue Aug 4 03:53:09 UTC 2015


On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 at 03:01:40, Loui Chang wrote:
> On Wed 29 Jul 2015 17:47 +0200, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
> > On 29/07, Loui Chang wrote:
> > >On Wed 29 Jul 2015 11:57 +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> > >>Since it makes no sense for empty packages to be out-of-date, would it
> > >>be a good idea to use a 3-state flag ('*', ' ', '!') instead? Might be a
> > >>bad idea if we plan to add more information to that output...
> > >
> > >Why wouldn't you just print the timestamp?
> > 
> > Because that would make it an even worse idea if we plan on adding more
> > information to the output, since it would make it even more messy, and not
> > really provide much information.
> 
> If you want to add more info better use more descriptive output then.
> So sounds like the formatting should be changed so that it's not messy.
> What other info do you want to add?

How about only showing the package base names when running `list-repos`
and providing more detailed information with `list-repos -l`?


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