On 12/13/2012 07:38 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > FWIW, I am following this thread with great interest. I think I > understand the various points of view. I think most everybody brings > up good points, and I encourage this kind of discussion. > > My current leanings are to change "rm" and "mv" as follows:
I like these proposed changes. I don't think I've ever done one rm/mv without the other (i.e. rm in fossil without also rm'ing on disk), so this'd save me some steps and typing 100% of the time. thanks, Richard! > (1) "fossil rm xyx.txt" will remove the file xyz.txt from disk if and > only if an exact copy of xyz.txt exists under control. If xyz.txt has > been modified or if xyz.txt has never been checked in (and the "fossil > rm" is simply to reverse a prior "fossil add") then xyz.txt is > unchanged. Either way, there are probably no error or warning > messages, though I am sympathetic to the argument that there should be > a warning message if the file is not deleted from disk. > > (2) "fossil mv abc.txt xyz.txt" will rename abc.txt to xyz.txt on disk > provided that xyz.txt does not previously exist on disk or if xyz.txt > does already exist and its content is identical to abc.txt. If > xyz.txt does previously exist and is different from abc.txt (and hence > would be overwritten) then the operation just fails out-right with an > appropriate error message. > > It seems to me that the behaviors above are the most "intuitive" and > provide developers with the least amount of surprise. The goal of > Fossil (as it should be for any VCS) is to get out of the developer's > way and just "do the right thing", so that the developer can devote > maximum brain-power to working on their application, and expend a > minimum number of brain-cycles thinking about Fossil and how to > control it. And I think the behaviors outlined above probably best > achieve this goal. > > But I am far from certain of that, so please do continue debating the > issue. We want to get this right. > > -- > D. Richard Hipp > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
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