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

[hendrik]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 09:49:17AM +0100, Thomas Moschny wrote:
> On Thursday 30 November 2006 06:20, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> > [...]
> > Also, to just remind everyone who hasn't been lurking for the last n
> > years, the other traditional argument for mtn commands being
> > unrestricted by default is that in this model both common use cases
> > are very natural:
> >    current dir: mtn commit .
> >   unrestricted: mtn commit

Presumably in this model you can still write
      mtn commit ../../.. 
if you really want to.

> > but in the other model, one is not natural at all:
> >    current dir: mtn commit
> >   unrestricted: mtn commit ../../.. # or was that ../../../..? ../..?
> 
> It is not that unnatural at all:
>     unrestricted: pushd ../../.. ; mtn commit ; popd
> 
> The concept of a current working directory is there for a reason, and 
> programs 
> should not simply ignore it. Of course we could always and everywhere work 
> with absolute and complete paths, but *that's* not natural.
> 
> - Thomas
> 
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