Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: [Monotone-commits-diffs] Revision 33eb2173fe9b55da6b26464380c68b8c02638a68

[hendrik]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:42:30PM -0600, Derek Scherger wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> > Whatever happened to the suggestion of prefixing every pathname with a
> > sequence of "../" as necessary to make them relative to the original
> > working directory?  (And of course removing any redundant bits.)  Then
> > "." would be unambiguously the root if the command was executed in the
> > root, and if you were somewhere else the root would be "../../.." or
> > something like that.
> 
> I was just looking at the net.venge.monotone.experiment.relative-paths
> branch which was a first crack at doing this. This branch pre-dates your
> path changes though so it needs an update.
> 
> I'm still in favour of this approach, so I'll update things to work with
> the new path code and try and come up with a formatting function for
> path output.

Don't forget yhay "../" won't back through symbolic inks properly.

-- hendrik