ignored command should take a path to start searching from

[Neil Martinsen-Burrell]

It would be nice to be able to do "bzr ignored ." to see the files under the current directory that are ignored along with the ignore patterns that apply. It is possible to do "bzr ls --ignored ." but that doesn't show the ignore patterns that apply.

It should probably just use the from_dir parameter to RevisionTree.list_files() to limit the search.

[Vincent Ladeuil (vila)]

Good idea, that would also provides a useful debug tool when dealing with complex ignore rules.

[Neil Martinsen-Burrell (nmb)]

How should the file names be printed? Relative to the tree root or relative to the path specified. list_files (as a thin wrapper for inventory.iter_entries) returns the paths relative to the specified from_dir. This is similar to the behavior of commands such as the shell's ls (but not Bazaar's ls). Should we try to match Bazaar's ls command?

[Vincent Ladeuil (vila)]

I think there are discussions about how paths should be displayed and this hasn't been settled yet (AIUI).

So ideally the underlying implementation should deal with paths relative to tree root and the command itself should decide how it wants to format them.

But specifically for ignored, I think having paths relative to the .bzrignore file itself makes sense.
The user will see which glob matches which path and this matching is done with tree root relative paths...