Crazy idea of the day: the '+' revision

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* Christian Boos <cboos at neuf.fr> [20100524 09:47]:
> On 5/24/2010 12:23 AM, Martin Geisler wrote:
>> Matt Mackall<mpm at selenic.com>  writes:
>>> Right now we've got a '.' revision that refers to the parent of the
>>> working directory. Very handy. But we've got no way to refer to the
>>> revision in the working directory. Internally, we can use repo[None] to
>>> get a working context, but there's no way to refer to it except
>>> implicitly on the command line. So I'm proposing adding a magical '+'
>>> revision for that purpose.
>>
>> My initial reaction to this was: "oh no, let's not add more 'line noise'
>> to Mercurial." But after thinking about it again, then perhaps this
>> isn't as bad.
>>
>> I do like Nicolas' suggestion of 'wdir' better, though since I think
>> it's clearer.
>
> '+' seems clear enough, once you know the rationale behind it (and then,  
> 'hg help +' should tell something about it!); if there should be a plain  
> text alias for '+', then I'd prefer 'dir' instead of 'wdir', as it bears  
> more symmetry with 'tip' (3 letters, pronounceable).

I'd prefer '+', too.

If there should be a longer name, it should start with "work", e.g.
"workdir" or "workingdir", because "dir" alone is too generic and
the "w" in "wdir" is not meaningful enough.

I would not recommend adding both, '+' and a longer name.

Regards,
Thomas

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