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

[Thomas Moschny]

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
> 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