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

[Hugo Cornelis]

On 10/31/07, Zack Weinberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Eh..  a dot normally means current working directory, not project root.
> > Can we *please* use some other sign or name or anything?
> >
> > IMO, disregarding the current working directory is already annoying
> > enough. But introducing ambiguity with path names is an absolute
> > non-starter.
>
> 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.
>


Yes, I like that idea very much, for simple shell scripting.

If all path formatting code gets centralized, then it becomes easy to
have absolute or relative or whatever path formatting, depending on a
command line options.

Have no clue about the work involved, but getting things centralized
first, as suggested, seems to me the way to start addressing this
problem.


Hugo


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