On Dec 10, 2009, at 7:30 AM, Ramon Ribó wrote: >> 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.
This is a proposal for how I think "fossil rm" should work. It's consistent with how "svn rm" works. At present it's not what happens. Will > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
