-echo "showing repository branches at: $(date)"
-
-FULL_LIST="$@"
-
-# only add the standard feisty meow repo list items if we were given no args on command line.
-#hmmm: below seems to be oddly just major locations; is the repo list all relative names?
-if [ -z "$FULL_LIST" ]; then
- FULL_LIST=" $(dirname $FEISTY_MEOW_APEX) $HOME "
- if [ "$OS" == "Windows_NT" ]; then
- FULL_LIST+=" c:/ d:/ e:/ "
- fi
+## holding old implem:
+#FULL_LIST="$@"
+## use the current directory if no paths were provided.
+#if [ -z "$FULL_LIST" ]; then
+# FULL_LIST="."
+#fi#
+#show_active_branch $FULL_LIST
+#exit_on_error "showing branches: $FULL_LIST"
+
+dir="$1"; shift
+if [ -z "$dir" ]; then
+ dir=.