[RFC] init-repo take --tree option

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:
>På Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 07:07:04PM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller skrev:
>> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 08:38:05PM +0200 I heard the voice of
>> Erik B?gfors, and lo! it spake thus:
>> > 
>> > /Erik - who must say he dislikes the new behavior of diff (adding a/
>> > and b/)
>> 
>> We're getting awful close to 0.8; we're kinda due to address this...
>> 
>> Michael posted a patch to add --no-prefix on Mar 2, which would at
>> least give the option of turning it off.  Discussions about the
>> default keep tailing off...
>
>The a/ and b/ stuff renders my patches to various projects I use bzr for (as
>a personal vcs, upstream uses cvs/svn/foo) almost useless for people.

I also find it annoying when I go to do a partial commit, and double click
the filename from the diff to paste it.  Yeah, that's probably a terrible
use case but it's something that bugs me all the time :)