Proposal: hg commands should operate on pwd, not on entire repo

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* Ed Santiago <esm at edsantiago.com> [20060616 17:46]:
> Currently, 'hg status' in a subdirectory shows all files
> in a repo, not just files under pwd.  Worse: hg commit
> will check in all modified files.

This is intended behaviour. For a rationale see
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue42
or the mailing list discussion.

> This is counterintuitive, especially for anyone who has ever used
> any other SCM tool.

What are these other SCM tools? CVS doesn't count here, because it
doesn't know about changesets.

> (The workaround is to add '.' to all commands: hg status .
> and so on.  That's really not a good solution).

This is an easy solution, because to make a command act on the whole
repository we would need add a special (and thus counterintuitive)
flag.

Thomas

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