remove vs rm vs forget (was [MERGE] remove --new)

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Robert Collins wrote:

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> 
> hg has 'commit -A' which is nice - its 'automatic'.
> 
> Our 'bzr remove .' should do the automatic unversioning IMO.
> 
> I like CVS's approach of 'rm -f' to unversion and remove a file.
> 
> oh, and 'bzr revert' already unversions but does not delete files.
> 
> -Rob
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I really don't like CVS's model. Especially since the way to revert a
file is to 'rm foo; cvs update foo'. Really really ugly.

I didn't know that CVS had a 'cvs rm -f', which might have made it okay,
but I really didn't like that I had to delete the files first. Since
that is multiple commands to do a simple thing.

Now, if the files are missing, I'm happy with 'bzr remove' to
automatically find the missing ones, and remove them. That is a decent
work flow. Just don't lose the functionality of 'bzr rm foo'.

I personally would rather it actually deleted the file, since now I'm
back in the 2 stage thing (bzr rm foo; rm foo).

We could use our revert logic, and have it create a backup file if 'foo'
has been modified. That way you can always get back the file you
deleted. With a 'bzr revert foo' and maybe an 'mv foo.~1~ foo'.

John
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