[MERGE] remove --new

Michael Ellerman michael at ellerman.id.au
Wed May 31 08:10:19 BST 2006


On 5/31/06, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
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> Michael Ellerman wrote:
> | On 5/31/06, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
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> |> Since this is fairly trivial and no one else has voted, I've submitted
> |> it.
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> | Hmm, ok. I guess we got side tracked. I would have at least suggested
> | it be --added instead of new. After all the help text you added says
> | "If you specify --new, only 'added' files will be removed."
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> Yeah, I did consider changing it, but I felt that --new was actually
> clearer.  After all, if a file is versioned, then it was 'added' at some
> point.  I guess --newly-added would be accurate, but since no file can
> be removed unless it has been added, the 'added' part is redundant.

Yeah I see your point. It just seems a little clunky. bzr ls has set
the precedent, ignored files -> --ignored, unknown files -> --unknown,
versioned files -> --versioned. And now we have remove which has,
added files -> --new.

cheers




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