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[Mark Grandi]

Yeah, i'm not sure what the problem is. Once someone implements the switch
on 'status', then its as simple as adding an alias to 'rstatus' or
something (relative status) to do status --relativePath. We can't please
everyone!

~mark


On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Mark A. Flacy <mflacy at verizon.net> wrote:

> Yeah, the sister survey to the one used by the OP.
>
>
> Tom Browder <tom.browder at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Mark A. Flacy <mflacy at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday, August 07, 2013 11:39:22 PM Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>
>> ...
>>
>>> Well, a couple of disjoint things:
>>>
>> ...
>>
>>> 1) IBM Clearcase UCM's version of 'bzr status' (cleartool lsact -long) gives
>>> you paths based upon the view's root directory, versus relative to wherever
>>> you happen to be in the view. Mercurial's status command (at least in
>>> version 2.2.2, which I happen to have installed) gives status based on the
>>> project root. 'git status' also acts the same way.
>>
>>
>> Not the git I use (1.8.3.2).  I'm two levels deep in my repo:
>>
>> $ git status
>> # ../run.txt
>> # ../tape1conv.log
>> # tape1conv.log
>> ...
>> nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
>>
>> That's what I like: file lists relative to my view (pwd)!
>>
>> But I agree that I can alias any required switch to get what I
>> want--if it's available, of course.
>>
>> Changing the default is going to break almost all scripts that are out
>>> there, IMO. Those that do the equivalent of the bash idiom...
>>>
>>> {
>>>
>>> cd $( bzr root )
>>>
>>> # run whatever status manipulating commands that you want which assume
>>>
>>> # that your CWD is the project root
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> ...won't notice the change. It seems unlikely to me that many people would
>>> write their scripts in such a fashion.
>>
>>
>> Have you access to a survey indicating that?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> -Tom
>>
>>
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