bzr inventory should accept a FILE argument

[Matthieu Moy]

This would be particularly usefull to get the ID of a file:

$ bzr inventory --show-ids foo.c
foo.c foo-20051026181315-794aa2b722d4a0fa
$ _

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

Yes, it should. But note that you can already do "bzr file-id foo.c"

[Wouter van Heyst (larstiq)]

Should inventory take a list of files like status currently does?

[Wouter van Heyst (larstiq)]

I didn't take unversioned files into account, would this be acceptable if I did?

[Wouter van Heyst (larstiq)]

Not that the code changed much, but writing a patch against a format-4 copy wasn't the smartest idea.

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

What is the status of this? Do we still want to add a FILE argument?

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

It sounds good to me, and the patch looks reasonable but it needs a test case.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

If we add this should we remove bzr file-id FILE ?

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

pinging mpool to either write a test case, or reject the bug.

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

The associated branch has a fix, and will hopefully be merged for 0.11

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

A modified version has been merged for 0.11.

We now use 'find_ids_across_trees()' which lets us find paths across renames, etc when using the --revision argument.

It also means that if you supply a directory, all children of that directory are selected.