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

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 21:47 -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:52:08 +0100
> Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 00:37 +0200, Marius Kruger wrote:
> > > 2009/1/28 Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org>
> > > 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.
> 
> Yes, I posted about this a while back.  It is really confusing to me at
> times when to specify a directory as a plain argument and when to use
> '-d' as the option.  For instance:
> 
> export
>   This command takes a destination as the first argument, and the
>   source as the second argument (!).  I use this often enough that I
>   can remember this oddity, and I understand the reasoning behind it
>   (the first argument, destination, is required, but the second
>   argument, source, is optional) but it still seems like a wart.
I think it makes a lot of sense to convert the second argument to a -d
option.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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