It seems reasonable to me. Sorry you got that reaction. Just from the mailing list thread size alone, it looks like you put quite a lot of work into it.
I wasn't readily able to find where the discussion broke down, but I see that there's a -p <path> flag in bash 5.3.
> Just from the mailing list thread size alone, it looks like you put quite a lot of work into it.
The patch itself was pretty simple, it's just that the community argued a lot about this feature even though I validated the idea in the mailing list before I even cloned the repository. I remember arguing with one person for days only to learn later he hadn't even read the code I sent.
> I wasn't readily able to find where the discussion broke down
So in the end it did make it into bash in some form. It's not very ergonomic by default but that can be fixed by wrapping it in an alias or function. Good enough.
Looks like 5.3 was released just over a month ago too so pretty recent. I'm gonna update and start using it right away. Thanks, Chet Ramey!
I wasn't readily able to find where the discussion broke down, but I see that there's a -p <path> flag in bash 5.3.