[MERGE] bzr rm should delete the working file (Bug #82602)

[Marius Kruger]

On 2/16/07, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
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> Marius Kruger wrote:
> >     Remove is a good choice for the "unversion" command because
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> >     1. People are already using it that way
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> > they use 'rm' that way too
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> Yeah, I know.  Those people will lose, but at least not everyone will
> have a formerly-safe command turn dangerous.
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> >     2. It is an antonym of "add".
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> > this makes sense,
> > but IMHO if we are giving rm and remove different meanings,
> > we are opening the door to confusion and chaos.
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> Sure, but I think if we have a "remove", it should not be more dangerous
> than the inverse of "add".  And if we have "unversion", that implies
> that we should have "version" also.

:)

So I'd actually be inclined to remove the "rm" alias, supply
> "del"/"delete" instead.

This looks safer to me, but then we loose the consistency with other version
control systems like svn (I think, as I don't use any others:)