Wishlist: rename a stack

[schwern]

I've built my repo in init and only now have realized that 'dev' would be a better name. As far as I can tell, the way to rename a stack is to copy it, transfer over any properties, and then delete the old one. Copying a stack is very slow, property transfer must be done carefully, and delete is broken.

A command to rename a stack would be handy. Given that pinto's commands are fairly verbose, "rename" would be what I'd suggest.

[thaljef]

On Nov 9, 2012, at 8:15 AM, Michael G. Schwern wrote:

I've built my repo in init and only now have realized that 'dev' would be a better name. As far as I can tell, the way to rename a stack is to copy it, transfer over any properties, and then delete the old one. Copying a stack is very slow, property transfer must be done carefully, and delete is broken.

A command to rename a stack would be handy. Given that pinto's commands are fairly verbose, "rename" would be what I'd suggest.

Good idea. That would be a cinch. Just update the name in the DB, and then change the symlink.

[thaljef]

By the way, most commands have short aliases...

list == ls
copy == cp
delete == del, rm

That probably needs to be added to the documentation.

[thaljef]

The copy operation can be made much, much faster. Right now it goes row by row, and each insert causes an additional row in the history table. If we just bypass DBIx::Class and write some raw SQL I'm sure it will be crazy fast. Too bad I despise SQL :-o

[thaljef]

Pinto-0.063 now supports a "Rename" action. You'll need a newer App-Pinto to get the corresponding command.