> If I then do > > rm *.foo > > when I meant to do > > fossil rm *.foo > > I can then do > > fossil update > > which will give me my *.foo files back.
Are you sure that this command is going to give that files back? Have you tried it? This is another field where there are currently proposals to change current behavior and do what you think that it does. The "principle of least surprise" is not followed here. 2009/12/10 Will Duquette <[email protected]>: > I was unclear, apparently. > > Suppose "fossil rm *.foo" deletes the files from the file system and > from Fossil. > > If I then do > > rm *.foo > > when I meant to do > > fossil rm *.foo > > I can then do > > fossil update > > which will give me my *.foo files back. Then, I can do > > fossil rm *.foo > > Note that I'd expect "fossil rm *.foo" only to remove files from the > file system that it can remove from the repository, i.e., if I had an > extra file, not_added.foo, I'd expect "fossil rm *.foo" to live it > alone. > > Will > > On Dec 10, 2009, at 3:20 AM, Benjohn Barnes wrote: > >> >> On 9 Dec 2009, at 21:21, [email protected] >> wrote: >> >>> 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 >> >> Although, I think, as you don't have any globbing, when you "ask >> fossil to give you the files back", you do need to type in all the >> names :-) (unless those deletions are the only changes that you've >> made to the working copy). >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
