Comment 2 for bug 74333

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Wouter van Heyst (larstiq) wrote : Re: [Bug 74333] Re: Asterisk in status not documented

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 08:24:03AM -0000, vila wrote:
> DVC is a bzr front-end for emacs and fails badly when encountering files
> ending with asterisks in bzr status output.
>
> If bzr continues to use the asterix to indicate this kind of change, I'm
> afraid that other command-line front-ends or even user scripts will also
> fail in the future.
>
> Can we use another way to indicate this kind of changes ?

I'm a bit surprised DVC can't deal with it, ls -F does the same thing,
as do other tools. Is DVC fundamentally uncapable of dealing with these
indicators?

Wouter van Heyst