From: ori@eigenstate.org Subject: Re: got log and subdirectories? To: naddy@mips.inka.de, gameoftrees@openbsd.org Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 14:58:36 -0800 > Stefan Sperling: > >> It's great that you're pointing these inconsistencies out because they >> do really need to be fixed. I don't actually care which way. >> We just need to decide on a convention and apply it consistently. >> Would you prefer an implicit dot to apply everywhere? > > People coming from CVS or Subversion will expect an implicit dot. > But if you say that Subversion's experience with this has been poor, > then I'm happy to adapt. I'm unsure how to best document this. > The fact that you even can specify "." as a path is not obvious. > > I don't understand the issues well enough to have an informed opinion > here. > I spend most of my time, and don't expect an implicit dot -- but I don't care much: either option is sane. I *do*, however, expect relative paths, which is enough to imply to me that '.' will work explicitly.