Specifying repository root with cat

[Mark Finnis]

Hi,

I'm not sure whether this is a bug or whether I'm missing something obvious.
In Windows XP I want to list a file from a repository. If I'm sat in the
repository root directory then

hg cat -r -1 file

lists the file as expected. If I'm in another directory then the response to

hg -R rootdir cat -r -1 file

is abort: file not under root. Something like

hg -R rootdir log

responds as expected and if I'm sat in the root directory

hg -R rootdir cat -r -1 file

lists the file. I can't see why I shouldn't be able to list a file outside
of the working directory and even if I can't I wouldn't expect mercurial to
respond in the way it has. Am I missing something?

Thanks.

MVF
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