Scope of operations

[Aaron Bentley]

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Robert Collins wrote:
| I'm starting to think that we are over emphasising the full tree aspects
| of our internals.
...
| But, I know that users often want to work on a small part of their code
| at once, and it follows that operations like log/revert/commit/annotate
| (and, if weave shows its potential, perhaps pull and merge), should work
| on the part of the branch they are working in. Yes, they can commit
| something that does not work, but they can always just commit the rest
| too.

You say 'internals', but this all sounds like UI stuff to me.  Commit,
log and revert can all operate on particular files anyhow.

I don't understand the mention of annotate, since it does not work on
the tree, only on files.

Maybe "commit ." should commit just the local directory, or maybe it
should be just "commit", but it's a UI issue as far as I can tell.

Aaron
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