absolute and relative paths with ssh

[Zbynek Winkler]

Hello,

could the documentation/code be updated regarding working with ssh? The 
current doc says that valid path for push is

ssh://[user@]host[:port][/path]

but it does not say, if the path is absolute or relative to home 
directory. According the description I expected an absolute path but I 
am getting path relative to the home directory instead.

hg push ssh://zbynek@host/www/repo

pushes to directory /home/zbynek/www/repo while

hg push ssh://zbynek@host//www/repo

pushes to directory /www/repo at host.

I think that '/' as a separator between the host name and the directory 
is confusing unless the resulting path is absolute. scp by default works 
with relative path unless given '/' at the start and uses ':' to 
separate host from path. Maybe hg could do the same?

Zbynek

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