Re: [fossil-users] Is there a way to specify paths relative to checkout's root?

[Stephan Beal]

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Tony Papadimitriou  wrote:

> OK, thanks.
>
> But, what would be wrong with using / which is closer semantically, and
> compatible to both Linux and Windows path syntax?
>

Just to avoid potential ambiguity and user confusion (because Unix users
expect / to mean something very specific, having nothing at all to do with
fossil). My concern is that using / as the prefix would eventually step on
someone's toes, either confusing them or downright breaking some semantics
(though i admittedly don't have an example which would break something).

svn uses the ^ prefix as an alias for SVNROOT, so maybe that would be a
good choice. i don't recall off hand whether ^ is a legal filename
character for Fossil. The : would be a character which cannot possibly be
used in fossil filenames names up to this point, making it safe for such
usage.

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Re: [fossil-users] Is there a way to specify paths relative to checkout's root?

[Tony Papadimitriou]

OK, thanks.

But, what would be wrong with using / which is closer semantically, and 
compatible to both Linux and Windows path syntax?

From: Stephan Beal 
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2017 7:46 PM
To: fossil-users 
Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Is there a way to specify paths relative to 
checkout's root?

There's not currently, and if someone wants to implement it i would suggest : 
as a prefix, since fossil does not allow : in file names (for Windows 
compatibility).


- stephan
Sent from a mobile device, possibly from bed. Please excuse brevity, typos, and 
top-posting.

On Sep 7, 2017 18:43, "Tony Papadimitriou"  wrote:

  For example, assuming a checkout tree like this:

  lib/file
  a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/j/file

  and while inside the j subdirectory, I want to refer to lib/file by doing 
something like:

  fossil tim –p /lib/file

  instead of 

  fossil tim –p ../../../../../../../../lib/file

  (and not sure if I got the number of ../ right, see the problem?)

  Similar to how one uses ~ to refer to home path in Linux, although I’m 
interested for this to work in Windows also.

  I tried both ~ and / with no success.
  (I guess / would be the obvious way to do this as it’s the checkout’s logical 
root.)

  Is there a way to do this?

  Thanks.

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Re: [fossil-users] Is there a way to specify paths relative to checkout's root?

[Stephan Beal]

There's not currently, and if someone wants to implement it i would suggest
: as a prefix, since fossil does not allow : in file names (for Windows
compatibility).

- stephan
Sent from a mobile device, possibly from bed. Please excuse brevity, typos,
and top-posting.

On Sep 7, 2017 18:43, "Tony Papadimitriou"  wrote:

> For example, assuming a checkout tree like this:
>
> lib/file
> a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/j/file
>
> and while inside the j subdirectory, I want to refer to lib/file by doing
> something like:
>
> fossil tim –p /lib/file
>
> instead of
>
> fossil tim –p ../../../../../../../../lib/file
>
> (and not sure if I got the number of ../ right, see the problem?)
>
> Similar to how one uses ~ to refer to home path in Linux, although I’m
> interested for this to work in Windows also.
>
> I tried both ~ and / with no success.
> (I guess / would be the obvious way to do this as it’s the checkout’s
> logical root.)
>
> Is there a way to do this?
>
> Thanks.
>
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