bzr assumes I want to remove the file if I delete it from the filesystem

[Aaron Bentley]

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Mark Rosenstand wrote:
>>If foo is a versioned filed, and I do 'rm foo; bzr commit'. Should bzr
>>really remove the file from the repository then? It seems quite odd to
>>me, especially since I temporarily removed a file from the file
>>system, and forgot to 'bzr revert' it before I committed... What's
>>the best way of restoring the file with all its history retained?
> 
> 
> IIRC it doesn't matter if you commit or not, if you rm a file you can't
> get it back easily.

That's not so.  You can get back any previously committed revision with
bzr revert -r $REVNO $FILENAME.

In this case, you'd probably want bzr revert -r last:2 FILENAME.

Aaron
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