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

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:33:34AM -0500 I heard the voice of
> John Arbash Meinel, and lo! it spake thus:
>> bzr rm --no-delete # Doesn't touch the working file
>> bzr rm --delete # Does the same as plain bzr rm, but exists for
>> 		# consistency.
> 
> We've covered this bit once or twice before in other contexts, but we
> should have both options, whichever the default is.  If the default
> moved to --delete, I'll add a --no-delete alias, but I may want to
> --delete at some point and override my override.

Which is another discussion, since right now our option parsing doesn't
just take the last valid entry. So in the mean-time I would have the
most conservative option win (and rm --no-delete would win for
bzr rm --no-delete --delete).

In the short term there is
bzr --no-aliases rm --delete

Yes, it is ugly. We have wanted to update our option parsing for a while
(for cases just like this).
It is just a fairly large overhaul, with only a limited obvious benefit.
So we have put it on the back-burner.

I suppose because of this we can make --no-delete the default.

John
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