Excerpts from Stephen J. Turnbull's message of Fri Aug 08 17:38:49 +0200 2008: > Alex Lance writes: > > > If the unpull command is to continue its life in darcs then yes that > > behaviour of making it safe, so that you don't accidentally "unpull" i.e. > > delete, your single copy of a local patch, appears to be desirable > > functionality. > > No, this is *undesirable* functionality. The point of obliterate is > indeed to delete your single copy of a local patch (for unlikely but > possible example, under a court order) without otherwise harming your > repository. More likely, people just like to live dangerously, and > they mostly use it in a fairly safe fashion as a generalized > amend-record. > > If you want to "undo" but keep the record of a patch, `darcs rollback' > will do the trick, albeit at the cost of including the rollback patch > in history. > > > - would allow you to nuke the text "(UNSAFE!)" from the documentation :) > > But then somebody will request the addition of a true (ie, unsafe) > obliterate command. Anyway, it is, after all, somewhat safer than > "rm _darcs/patches/...".
Unless if a --force option is provided. -- Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai
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