ANN: clean-ignored plugin

[Wouter Bolsterlee]

På Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 07:55:52AM -0600, John Arbash Meinel skrev:
> Martin Pool wrote:
> > On  1 Feb 2006, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy at imag.fr> wrote:
> >> Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> writes:
> >>
> >>> Because clean-tree ALWAYS delete unknown files. But I sometimes want to
> >>> delete ONLY ignored. So Martin's idea to have 'bzr ignored --delete'
> >>> behaviour for deleting only ignored is very handy for me. I'll take the
> >>> request.
> >> So, why not
> >>
> >> bzr ignored --delete   => clean-ignored
> >> bzr unknown --delete   => clean-tree
> >> bzr inventory --delete => err, no, just kidding ;-)
> > 
> > That sounds good to me.  It seems to give the most useful functionality,
> > without proliferating commands.
> > 
> > (Perhaps people would dislike options that change the fundamental verb
> > from 'show' to 'delete'?  But it feels reasonable.)
> > 
> 
> I thought we were actually trying to get rid of the 'bzr ignored' and
> switch to something like "bzr ls --ignored", because of the
> proliferation of commands.
> 
> Also, in unix style, you would use 'bzr ls --ignored -0 | xargs -0 rm'
> 
> I don't mind making it a little bit easier for users, but I'm not sure
> that 'bzr ignored --delete' is the answer.
> 
> In fact, it makes more sense to me to use "bzr rm --all-ignored", since
> that is the command which is doing the deleting.

To me, John's suggestion is the best so far. The semantics of the commands
are really clear and non-ambiguous.

  mvrgr, Wouter

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