[csw-maintainers] mgar 0.94-rc1 - changes and call for testing

[Sebastian Kayser]

Hi everyone,

after some good feedback during summercamp, mgar 0.94rc1 comes hot on
the heels of 0.93. Most changes revolve around the indexing and
searching, but also include a commit fix that's needed for svn 1.7.

Testing is as easy as:

    alias mgar=~skayser/bin/mgar-rc     # [*]


Changes with 0.94-rc1:
* NEW command "status" to query VCS status (^= svn status)
* NEW command "reindex" to drop and re-build the search index
* NEW command alias "update" for "up"
* NEW added fallback to GARTYPE=v2 if GARTYPE and externals not set
* CHANGE "locate" command output now sorted
* CHANGE "locate" now automatically builds the index (if not present)
* CHANGE "locate" will update the index if it's older than 14 days
* CHANGE "locate" dropped a: prefix, search all recipe lines by default
* CHANGE "locate" use n: prefix instead of g: to search the name field
* FIX "index" now properly encodes file paths with special signs (e.g. '+')
* FIX "init-existing" now properly removes obsolete gar/ symlinks
* FIX ~/.garrc variable assignments couldn't cope with tabs (Rafael Ostertag)
* FIX "commit" didn't include parent when needed #58 (Dagobert Michelsen)
* DROP command "scm", typing "svn <sth>" is shorter than "mgar scm <sth>"


Feedback welcome!

Sebastian

[*] mgar-rc gets updated whenever features/fixes are considered for public
testing. By keeping the above alias you can help to test new mgar versions
and also easily fall back to the official version.