remove vs rm vs forget

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 12:39:51PM +0300, Jari Aalto+mail.perl wrote:
<snip>
> >> - change project; What the command called in VCS x?
> >> - change project; What the command called in VCS y?
> >>   ...
> >>   "Argh, why can't they use common command set ..."
> >
> > But you still have to remember for each VCS what 'rm' _actually does_,
> > so there's no less remembering.
> 
> To me deleting file from working dir without explicit request is too
> dangerous -- I think SVN did go wrong there and CVS was right to
> request user to do that.

I agree with that, except CVS got the order wrong, having to delete the
file before you could remove it from versioning.

Wouter van Heyst