init: mercurial creates directories higher up than reporoot?

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 11:42 +0200, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> Shouldn't it be something like:
> 
>   $ hg init foo/bar/bla
>   abort: The system cannot find the path specified: foo/bar

It is a bit unusual for applications to create directory trees, but
Mercurial does it all the time. Why do we care?

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