why does bazaar not add a file automatically on the first commit

[Colin D Bennett]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:22:07 -0400
Stefan Monnier <monnier at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > My particular reason for not wanting auto-remove is renames:
> 
> > bzr add foo
> > bzr commit -m 'foo'
> > mv foo bar
> 
> > bzr commit -m "silently remove foo, and ignore bar"
> 
> Agreed.  As for the argument that it's more convenient for tools,
> I don't believe it either: it'll just make tools behave erratically,
> especially since tools are much worse than humans at noticing some
> inconsistency (unless that inconsistency leads to an actual error).
> 
> I'd rather have a separate option or command that asks Bzr to guess
> file (and directory) addition/removal/renames.

Just as long as I have some way to tell Bazaar: "Files have been
removed and added to the files on the filesystem (=tree?). Make It So in
the branch."

The use case is that I have to use a proprietary VCS tool at work but
I use bzr locally on my machine for my own changes. When I update the
tree with upstream changes using the proprietary tool, there may be
hundreds of removes that I sure don't want to do by hand.

Colin
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