Re: [Tracker] URGENT: Mentor for GSOC

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 25/03/15 05:56, kunaal jain wrote:
> Hi Martyn,

Hi,

CCd the list, given the suggested work below...

> I have been trying to contact Philip from last 5 days, but he has not
> checked his mailbox, I suppose. I have asked him to do the same.

He is normally quite responsive.

> You mentioned sometime back about adding a command tracker add <file
> name>. Can you tell me more details about it? I will work on it.

Yea, so right now adding or removing both "configured locations to be 
indexed" and "content indexed" is not really that easy using the command 
line.

You actually can add a file or directory to be indexed using:

  $ tracker index -f /path/to/file

But I would like to have a:

  $ tracker add /path/to/file

and

  $ tracker rm /path/to/file

Basically, I want both "INDEXING" and "CONFIGURATION" functionalities 
through the add and rm commands, but I am not sure which should be the 
default without additional command line switches. I think people are 
more likely to want to index content than update their config, so 
perhaps we make it:

  $ tracker add --config PATH  # UPDATE CONFIG
  $ tracker add PATH           # INDEX

and

  $ tracker rm --config PATH   # UPDATE CONFIG
  # tracker rm PATH            # INDEX

Importantly, we have this "recursive" feature for configured locations 
too, so we would need an additional flag to separate single or recursive 
locations. I would say recursive should be the default. I would be nice 
to have --depth 2 or something like that but it's quite an 
implementation to do that for depths outside 1 or MAXINT.

I also realised the other day, we don't have a way to easily show the 
configured locations. So we could have a:

  $ tracker index --config

OR

  $ tracker info --config

I'm not sure which makes more sense, probably the former.

Perhaps?

I am open to suggestions here from others (on the mailing list too). I 
take my inspiration from the Git command line which I really like to use.

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Regards,
Martyn