Support relative-path references in --update #563
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Support relative-path references as described by RFC-3986, allowing something similar to --update=file:relative/path/to/config.yml.
This would introduce some new ambiguity—is that a URI or a YAML string?—but not a new form of ambiguity. The CLI already decides to treat file:/not-a-path as a URI rather than as literal configuration. Maybe the right way forward is to let different options be responsible for URIs (which could then just be paths) and literal configuration.
Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?
The same as in #93, reference configuration files by relative path. This would be especially nice to have in collaborative projects that don't necessarily live at the same absolute path for different collaborators.
Are you currently working around this issue?
Yes, with file://$(pwd)/relative/path/to/config.yml