-e relative paths made absolute

[ryanhiebert]

In my particular case, I have the line -e . in my requirements.in file. When this is compiled with pip-compile, it transforms that line to the full path of the current directory, like -e /Users/ryanhiebert/Code/python/my-project. Unfortunately, that's not the correct directory for my production servers, so I have to go back into the generated requirements.txt file and change it back to -e ., which is quite annoying.

Can we make it so that -e lines are kept verbatim, or would that cause problems that I've not thought about?

[ryanhiebert]

Oops. Looks like I missed an existing issue about this: #204

[atugushev]

The known workaround is -e file:.#egg=myproject . See #204 (comment).