Cc: 39380@debbugs.gnu.org, Wolfgang.Scherer@gmx.de
From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2020 12:36:46 +0300
If I say "hg status" in a subdirectory, I by default get file names
relative to the root. Wouldn't Mercurial users be surprised that
Emacs produces a different display? (I understand that there's a
recent tendency to make it easier to produce relative file names, and
there's even a config option to make that the default, but I'm asking
whether we should force this behavior on users even if their
preference is not to.)
VC is intended to provide a unified interface across backends, even if
it's at times different from the "native" behaviors.
Anyway, it's very easy to get the names against the root anyway: just
open VC-Dir there. And it's the default input: M-x vc-dir RET.