Re: [Monotone-devel] CLI / path restrictions.

[Derek Scherger]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> Hardest part is coming up with a sensible way for the user to express
> this desire -- any suggestions?

off the top of my head --local (a la cvs) comes to mind...

> Though I guess the semantics of listing a directory are not totally
> clear; if I say 'log foo/', and there's a file foo/bar that used to be
> in some other dir, should the log include edits to foo/bar before it
> was in this dir?  if there used to be a file called foo/bar but is no
> longer, should the log include edits to foo/bar when it was in this
> dir?

part of me thinks we should list the rename but not bother tracing back
beyond that point. if that is the file you're interested in, you can ask
for a log from the rename revision using the old name to keep going.

Cheers,
Derek