On Dec 9, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > IMO, duplicating the shell functionality is the wrong approach, > mainly because there will be behavioural differences between > fossil's and the shell's globbing. i agree it would be convenient > for us users, but it technically could not be guaranteed to behave > the same as the user's shell, and therefore could cause confusion or > even data loss (e.g. accidental removal or even purging by using an > incompatible glob pattern).
Which is exactly why "fossil rm *.foo" should delete *.foo from the file system as well as from the repository. If you forget, and do "rm *.foo", then you can ask fossil to give you the files back, and then do "fossil rm *.foo" so that you don't need to type in all of the names. Will > > -- > ----- stephan beal > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users ------------------------------------------------------------------ will -at- wjduquette.com | Catch our weblog, http://foothills.wjduquette.com/blog | The View from the Foothills _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
