output from 'bzr rm' should be more verbose and intuitive

Lukáš Lalinský lalinsky at gmail.com
Sun Jan 21 12:17:11 GMT 2007


'bzr rm' currently doesn't print anything by default:

$ bzr add a.txt 
added a.txt
$ bzr rm a.txt 
$ 

I think this is a little confusing, as it isn't clear if the file was
actually removed. Of course, there is '--verbose', but I think it's not
very helpful if you don't know what to expect:

$ bzr add a.txt
added a.txt
$ bzr rm -v a.txt
?       a.txt

In 'bzr status' ? means that the file is not versioned, does is mean
here that the file is not versioned and so can't be removed? I would
personally expect that 'bzr rm' prints status of the file *during* the
remove, not after it. Or even better it could print the action, like
'bzr add'. What about changing it to this?

$ bzr add a.txt 
added a.txt
$ bzr rm a.txt 
removed a.txt
$ 

-Lukáš






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