From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:36:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Allow whole-tree operations to be started from a subdirectory
Message-ID: <7vhcutflj9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <45AA72E1.6060701@midwinter.com>

Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> writes:

> For example, on a simple Web project, the UI designers will always cd
> to the "html" directory. They get "src" and "lib" too, but if they had
> a choice they wouldn't. When they cherry-pick, it'll always be a
> cherry-pick of their own stuff (in the html directory) and likewise
> with a revert, so they have no reason to cd-up for any of those
> operations if the tool doesn't demand it. And perhaps less obvious: in
> a typical shared integration area setup, they will never have any
> conflicts anywhere but their subdirectory since the other directories
> will always be able to fast-forward merge. So cd-up isn't useful for
> them even in the case of merge conflicts.

Both good points.  Especially the latter one, I did not think of
myself.

Thanks.