remove vs rm vs forget

[Jari Aalto+mail.perl]

* Fri 2006-06-16 Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley AT utoronto.ca>
* Message-Id: 4492A0C0.8070507 AT utoronto.ca
> Jari Aalto+mail.perl wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> To me, the name 'rm' suggests that it's meant to be used in place of
> POSIX rm in working trees, just as mv is meant to be used in place of
> POSIX mv.

I may understand wrong your reference to "working trees", but If put
side by side:

    $ rm
    $ bzr rm

It's quite obvious and natural to comprehend that that "bzr" work on
repo side and not on current working directory/tree(?) side without
explicit additional option (the suggested "--delete").

Jari