On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 7:57 AM, Jan Nijtmans <jan.nijtm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-06-04 19:22 GMT+02:00 Joe Mistachkin: > > First, I read the code involved very carefully and experimented with it > here > > locally. > > > > I wanted to agree with the change when I thought it was only impacting > the > > file names > > that were shown to the user; however, it actually changes the arguments > > passed to the > > child process (i.e. which may be reconfigured by the user). This is > > technically a > > breaking change because some tools may not be able to handle relative > paths > > (i.e. they > > may not preserve the current directory correctly). > > Would you accept the patch if the use of relative paths was for > win32 and cygwin only? External diff tools which handle relative paths > the way you describe don't exist on win32/cygwin. > My idea was that an option be used to tell Fossil whether absolute or relative file names are desired. Also, the coworker in question has pointed out that several VCSs allow % substitutions in the external command specifications. Would this be feasible in Fossil? If so, this would even greater flexibility in configuring external commands.
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