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<span id="The-_003ahere-directive"></span><h4 class="subsection">8.6.1 The :here directive</h4>
<p>The <code>:here</code> directive is an absolute pathname designator that
refers to the directory containing the configuration file currently
being processed.
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<p>The <code>:here</code> directive is intended to simplify the delivery of
complex CL systems, and for easy configuration of projects shared through
revision control systems, in accordance with our design principle that
each participant should be able to provide all and only the information
available to him or her.
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<p>Consider a person X who has set up the source code repository for a
complex project with a master directory <samp>dir/</samp>. Ordinarily, one
might simply have the user add a directive that would look something
like this:
</p><div class="example">
<pre class="example"> (:tree &quot;path/to/dir&quot;)
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<p>But what if X knows that there are very large subtrees
under dir that are filled with, e.g., Java source code, image files for
icons, etc.? All of the asdf system definitions are contained in the
subdirectories <samp>dir/src/lisp/</samp> and <samp>dir/extlib/lisp/</samp>, and
these are the only directories that should be searched.
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<p>In this case, X can put into <samp>dir/</samp> a file <samp>asdf.conf</samp> that
contains the following:
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<pre class="example">(:source-registry
(:tree (:here &quot;src/lisp/&quot;))
(:tree (:here &quot;extlib/lisp&quot;))
(:directory (:here &quot;outlier/&quot;)))
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<p>Then when someone else (call her Y) checks out a copy of this
repository, she need only add
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<pre class="example">(:include &quot;/path/to/my/checkout/directory/asdf.conf&quot;)
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<p>to one of her previously-existing asdf source location configuration
files, or invoke <code>initialize-source-registry</code> with a configuration
form containing that s-expression. ASDF will find the .conf file that X
has provided, and then set up source locations within the working
directory according to X&rsquo;s (relative) instructions.
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