> 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.
I was refering to the fact that "fossil update" currently does not recreate a deleted file. It is necessary to do a "fossil revert". There are some people, myself included, that think that "fossil update" should recreate deleted files. 2009/12/11 Will Duquette <[email protected]>: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
