Why does "hg diff" iterate through . instead of .hg/data?

[Mark A. Flacy]

On 2008.01.05 18:31, Rob Landley wrote:
> 
> Both of these would naturally "just work" if "hg diff" just used  
> .hg/data as the source of the files to check (or .hg/00manifest or  
> something in the .hg directory) instead of approaching it from the  
> other direction.


It would still work if the os.walk() function followed symlinks.  (Which  
I assume is what they are using to traverse the directory contents.)  It  
isn't that difficult to have os.walk() effectively follow symlinks, but  
you then have to worry about recursive symlinks.


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Mark A. Flacy