Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 22:50 +0200, Thomas Moschny wrote:
> On Friday 04 August 2006 22:25 Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > For example, the "mtn status" command gives status for
> > every file in the project. If this output was PWD-relative, you would
> > get things like:
> >
> >   [M]  fred.c
> >   [D]  ../baz/mumble.c
> >
> > which would be confusing. Worse, the answer differs depending on your
> > current directory, which was really confusing.
> 
> I fail to see why this would be confusing, especially in your example, as the 
> existance of '..'-style paths would show me *immediately* hat the output 
> cannot be relative to the wd's root.

Try it on a 20,000 file project and then see what you think.

The fact that the output is context dependent is also a problem.


This is not a place where there is a right answer for all cases -- which
is why it generates so much back and forth in discussions.

shap