[GRASS-dev] RE: [bug #4726] (grass) g.mapset: MAPSET parameter should default to PERMANENT

[William Kyngesburye]

I agree with Maciek.  This is not a good place to assume what the  
user wants to do.

And I, and I'm sure many others, never put data into PERMANENT (and  
there are probably many others who do, it's the user's preference),  
it's not a very descriptive name for a mapset and it's difficult to  
type (in my opinion).  I wouldn't want to accidentally start  
importing data into a mapset I hadn't conciously selected.

If you want it to default to a mapset it would be quite simple to  
write a shell script, say g.mapset.default, to do this.  It would  
then only need to take location and gisdbase params and pass them  
on.  At least 'default' is easier to type than 'PERMANENT', or you  
can pick something shorter.

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