[darcs-users] darcs and the current working directory

Stefan Wehr mail at stefanwehr.de
Thu Jun 23 01:28:32 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 22 June 2005 20:40, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 June 2005 10:48, Stefan Wehr wrote:
> > I suggest that "darcs whatsnew" should behave like "darcs whatsnew .",
> > the same for other relevant commands. Furthermore, filenames should be
> > reported relative to the current working directory and not relative to
> > the directory containing `_darcs'.
>
> Actually; I find this feature the best feature of Darcs and using the '.'
> for the one or two times I actually want only the current dir makes sense
> and makes me not loose any functionality.
>
> Indeed; the functionality of darcs is logical based on the fact that darcs
> is patch based and not tree or file based.
> CVS and SVN only work on the current dir because they see each subdir as a
> separate repo.  SVN also has lots of problems in consistency for
> recursiveness being defaut for commans (add v.s revert for example),
> another thing I really don't want to copy.
>
> No, the way darcs choose to do things makes sense and should be kept.

Do you think it make sense that "darcs whatsnew ." displays filenames starting 
with './' although the filenames are relative to darcs' root directory and 
not to the current working directory?

Cheers,
  Stefan 

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