Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: listing unknown directories

[hendrik]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 11:07:13AM +0100, Zbynek Winkler wrote:
> On 11/29/06, Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:19:23AM +0100, Thomas Moschny wrote:
> >> See 
> >http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.monotone.devel/7636
> >> and around. He was arguing about confused users and about consistency. Me
> >> personally, I was not convinced.
> >>
> >> Instead, I was confused when I had to learn that the paths monotone 
> >/accepts/
> >> (from the cmdline) have to be relative to cwd, while the paths
> >> monotone /emits/ are always relative to the workspace root.
> >
> >So you argue that all paths monotone prints out, from all commands
> >including e.g. 'status', should always be relative to the cwd?
> 
> I think that the paths monotone outputs should be relative to the path
> supplied on the command line. So 'status' without path would list
> files relative to the project root while 'status .' relative to the
> cwd.

If you start to have '..'s in the path name, though, it might be better 
to do it otherwise.  '..'s don't always back you out of directories 
properly if you got there by symbolic links.

> 
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