[rfc] bzr --cd=/any/where rocks

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 00:37 +0200, Marius Kruger wrote:
> 2009/1/28 Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org>
>         I think it makes more sense to add a generic option to Bazaar
>         that can
>         be easily used and make use of that in more places than to add
>         a global
>         option.
>         
>         E.g. allowing "directory" in the takes_options array like we
>         already
>         allow "revision". What commands are there that you think could
>         use -d
>         but don't support it at the moment?
> 
> thats sort of my point: some commands take a "directory" option and
> others
> take a -d option, and some does not implement something like this eg.
> missing
These options are the same thing -d is the short option name and
--directory is the long option name. I don't think there is
inconsistency in how this option works for the different commands,
except that it is not yet available for all commands.

> I want something that works exactly the same no matter what the
> command.
> I'm not suggesting that we remove there other options because they
> cater for something slightly different (eg. branch urls).
> I see --cd as a complementary thing.
In that case, I think --cd would be a bad idea. It just duplicates
functionality that is already there (-d).

>         I also don't think it is actually necessary to change the
>         directory in a
>         lot of situations and that it can actually be harmful since
>         *all* paths
>         would be interpreted relative to the option specified in --cd.
>         For
>         example, take "bzr push -d ../somedir subdir". This would
>         behave
>         differently when used with an option that does an actual
>         chdir.
> That is exactly what I want. --cd should behave exactly the same as if
> you 
> actually cd'd into that dir and then run she command.
That's really functionality that should be in your shell in that case, I
don't think we should be replicating that.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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