bzr status

[Colin D Bennett]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:13:24 +0100
David Ingamells <david.ingamells at mapscape.eu> wrote:

> To all posters in this thread, please be careful with terminology: in 
> Unix/Linux _absolute_ paths are paths that begin at the root of the
> file system, and have an initial "/". If all paths were reported
> absolutely, there would be no need for "..", "." or "../../.." in the
> names and your 'cwd" would have no impact on the names reported by
> bzr status (except of course to give bzr status the context of where
> to look to examine the branch). I'm not particularly arguing for
> this, but it is an alternative.

I am definitely strongly against showing absolute paths.  (Except by an
explicit option.)  Normally when I'm working, I don't care what the
full path is, and it may vary depending on whether I'm at
home/work/laptop.  I don't need to see the whole path leading up the
branch directory in paths like
"/home/cdb/projects/acme-corp/fooproject/work/trunk/gui/src/button.cpp".

The important part of the path is then obscured by the huge path, which
may not be that outrageous of an example, if you use a strongly
hierarchical directory structure to organize your files.

I didn't think anyone would argue for absolute paths as the default
output, but since you mentioned it I had to say something since I
think it would be a very inconvenient default.

Regards,
Colin
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