RFC: bzr rm is hard to use

Aaron Bentley aaron at aaronbentley.com
Fri Jul 17 14:26:14 BST 2009


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Robert Collins wrote:
> I'll accept anything that works.
> 
> However, 'rm' seems to be a trigger point in UI design - its been around
> a few times because everyone wants it to do what they usually do :).
> 
> Here's an alternative simpler to explain version:
> 'bzr rm foo' will make unversion and delete foo, making backups with the
> same rules 'bzr revert' uses.

You've left out some of the rules that revert uses:
- - revert of an added file that was modified by bzr deletes it.

I don't really get why it makes sense to sometimes rename the file when
unversioning it, and sometimes not.

Aaron
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