Mercurial “hg status” and relative paths

To see workspace status relative to the current directory you can always use “.” (a single dot) as the argument of “hg status”, i.e.:

% hg root                   # root of the workspace
/work/foo

% pwd                       # current directory is <root>/src
/work/foo/src

% hg status                 # no argument, see all files
M etc/foo.conf              # all files are shown with paths
M src/foosetup.c            # relative to workspace root
%

The difference when you explicitly ask for the current working directory is that the relative filename paths use that as their starting point:

% hg status .               # see only files under current path
M foosetup.c
%