Re: something equivalent to "bk ls"?

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Brendan Heading wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   is there something equivalent to "bk ls" to show the gfile
> > equivalents of a directory's files?
>
> Just to come in with a point that Robert is (distantly) making here.
>
> I think it's really great if, where possible, BK has "obvious" shortcuts that
> resemble existing UNIX commands, except which work on the revision controlled
> files and have intuitive extensions allowing operations on the history. It's
> surprising how tiny little details like that actually save quite a lot of
> accumulated time.
>
> For example the way "bk vi" allows you to alias it in a transparent way so you
> don't have to care about checking out files is one of those neat little
> touches, it just works out of the box. It'd be really neat to have "bk find"
> and "bk ls" etc, which, like bk vi, work normally when they're run outside of
> a repository but do useful things when they're invoked within.

i had in passing noticed a few more obvious ones:

  $ bk cat
  $ bk more
  $ bk cp
  $ bk rm
  $ bk rmdir
  ... etc ...

as has already been pointed out, most of these can probably be
implemented as shell functions based on "sfiles", so it's not like it
would be hard to add them, i suspect.

rday
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