remove vs rm vs forget

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 11:45 +0200, Wouter van Heyst wrote:
> 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.

well, 'cvs rm -f foo' worked fine. I agree that we need a way to
unversion without deleting.

Rob
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