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

[Thomas Moschny]

On Wednesday 29 November 2006 07:43, Derek Scherger wrote:
> >> Also for ls known and ls unknown, I would really like it if pathnames
> >> were relative to the current directory, not the base directory, ie:
> >>
> >> address@hidden:~/tree/config/include$ mtn ls known .
> >> include
> >> include/config.sh
> >> include/filter
> >
> > Jonathan Shapiro argued against that, based on some experience with
> > OpenCM.  It annoys me, too, but I can see the arguments on both sides.
> > It doesn't seem at all clear that what monotone does now is wrong.
>
> Yeah, this has come up a few times and should be simple enough to
> implement. I'm curious to know what shap's objections would have been
> though. Do you have a link handy?

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.

Besides this, the zsh completion code could be less complex with relative 
paths.

Regards,
Thomas