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

James Henstridge james at jamesh.id.au
Tue Feb 20 16:13:34 GMT 2007


On 19/02/07, Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net> wrote:
> You could do this, or you could add it as a flag to bzr remove
> (bzr rm -D for example, as John Whitley suggested).
>
> I personally think that using remove -D and rm -D is preferable for a
> couple of reasons.  First, I really don't like the idea of having
> "dangerous" commands which by default can result in data loss.
> Requiring a flag means you can't do it by accident, you have to say,
> "Yes, unconditionally, without question, I want to scrub this data."

A flag for rm/remove sounds good to me, but I'd suggest using "bzr rm
-f" instead.  Both CVS and Subversion use -f or --force for "unversion
+ delete", so it seems silly to implement the same feature but pick a
different name without a good reason.



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