Re: Making import syntax more consistant (Was Re: making repositories)

Hmm, hit the 'send' key early by accident.

At 08:32 PM 10/14/2002 -0500, Brent Burton wrote:

>>If you expect the results of the latter when specifying the former, then
>>consider if the second argument were not relative to the current working
>>directory, or if it began with "..". Import couldn't very well create files
>>under ".." of the repository root.
>
>Well it's certainly something to check IFF one was to allow that
>kind of specification. See httpd as an example of this file handling.
>But your point is clear -- at what point does the file spec

But your point is clear -- how much processing the file spec
does is definable and fairly arbitrary. Perhaps a huge number
of ../ references simply backs up against the repository root,
where ".." there refers to itself, like the filesystem root.

Anyway, I'm digressing.

I support your proposal for specifying new subdirs by simply
including them in the repository path. It's very clean and
unambiguous without impacting the file-import code very much.

-Brent

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Received on Tue Oct 15 03:48:22 2002