[MERGE] Allow appending path segments to the :<name> style aliases.

[Michael Hudson]

Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Michael Hudson wrote:
>> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>>> Michael Hudson wrote:
>>>> This simple patch extends the directory service to allow path segments
>>>> after the name of a branch location alias.
> 
> bb:comment
> 
> I want to think about this, because I'd also like to support alias
> chaining, like:
> 
> :parent:public
> 
> i.e. the public location of the parent branch.  I intuit that these
> ideas can be combined, but I'm not sure of the best approach...

That does seem like a good thing, but I don't think these are
incompatible at all, are they?  Your approach just changes the meaning
of the bit before the first '/', so :parent:public/../foo would be a
sibling directory to the public location of the parent branch, and so on.

Btw, I'd also quite like :repository...

Cheers,
mwh