Question about global --repository option

[TK Soh]

On 5/13/07, Patrick Mézard <pmezard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> Reading <http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue551>, I do not know
> if it is a bug or a feature: is --repository supposed to change the
> current working directory or resolve path arguments relatively to the
> supplied repository root ?

I always thought only --cwd would do the chdir. Has this changed?