RFC: should nesting recurse up?

[Aaron Bentley]

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Hi all,

When I discussed by-reference nesting to a coworker, he suggested it
should recurse in both directions: down into subtrees, and up into
parent trees.

For example, given this layout:

tree/
tree/subtree/sub-subtree
tree/subtree2

(all these trees are nested by reference into their parents)

Committing in "subtree" would affect not only "sub-subtree", but "tree",
and probably also "subtree2".

This is definitely the closest imitation of one big non-nested tree, I'm
just not sure it's very useful.

What I want is the ability to commit in a subdirectory, and have that
affect only the current tree, because each tree is its own unique
project.  I can kinda do this by specifying a directory to commit, but I
must always enter the root directory, if I want this behavior.  Which
seems like a pain.

Of course, we can make the recursion type optional, if there's strong
demand for both.

Aaron
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