lib.fileset.trace should show whether directories include files by default #268878
Description
Issue description
lib.fileset.trace should show whether directories include files by default.
Here's an example:
$ mkdir d d/d
$ touch f d/f d/d/f
$ nix repl -f channel:nixos-unstable
[...]
nix-repl> :a lib.fileset
Added 11 variables.
nix-repl> trace (difference ./. (difference ./d ./d/d))
trace: /home/tweagysil/test/x
trace: - d
trace: - d (all files in directory)
trace: - f (regular)
The trace should instead be something like this:
trace: /home/tweagysil/test/x (includes files by default)
trace: - d (excludes files by default)
trace: - d (all files in directory, includes files by default)
trace: - f (regular)
This is totally doable, just requires a bunch of time and might make everything slower (not just the tracing). So I'm not sure if this is worth having. For now just writing this down to track it.
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