Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: listing unknown directories

[Patrick Mauritz]

Thomas Moschny wrote:
> And after all, it was only an example. Like Zack said, mtn is different from 
> many if not all unix commands wrt the discussed behavior.
>   
How about "mtn commit //" for "repository root" then? // is defined as 
"system specific" in POSIX but practically unused on all common platforms.
Of course, I expect the Win32 people to object to that because UNC names 
are similar enough, starting with \\

as for your "next best tangential topic", I'd expect it to be "one tool 
for one job". I'd propose to defer this until perl is split up in many 
unusable (but "one job") pieces, awk went the way of the dodo (it does 
nothing sed and any shell could solve), X.org agreed to split up their 
code so one of their (then many) tools truly serves "one job", etc.


patrick mauritz