best way to add unknowns from the command line?

[Martin Pool]

On 22 March 2012 08:08, Chris Hecker <checker at d6.com> wrote:
>
> I'm in some subdir of my project.  I run a bzr st, and find I have some
> unknown files I want to add (not all of the listed unknown files).
> There seems to be no subdir independent way to add these from the
> command line.  The branch-root-relative way they're listed doesn't work,
> since bar add takes a cwd relative path.  There's no ROOT: type modifier
> (which would help with all commands).  You basically have to do
> something lame like:
>
> bzr unknowns:
> lib/foo.c
>
> bzr add ../../../lib/foo.c
>
> as far as I can tell.  Is there some cool way to do this?
>
> bzr qadd takes forever to launch because it expands entire unknown
> directories on load, which is silly.

I might do

  pushd `bzr root`
  bzr add lib/foo.c
  popd

but, a root-relative option, or an `add --interactive` might be nice.
-- 
Martin