On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 08:46:22PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 12:06:02AM +0000, Eric wrote:
> > 
> > 1) Telling the operating system to delete a file from disk and telling
> > the VCS that a file which is in the parent commit should not be in the
> > next are two very different actions and I think they should be kept
> > separate.
> 
> I'm perfectly fine with there being a way to keep the peformance of these
> tasks separate, and I doubt anyone else here has a problem with it
> either.  What people actually want is a POLS way to combine them.  The
> suggestion of moving current `rm` behavior to `remove`, and repurposing
> `rm`, seems like an excellent way to satisfy both needs.  I'd be just as
> happy with a command line option for the current behavior and the default
> being repurposed as proposed, though some people would evidently be
> miffed by that even if they insist everyone else use a command line
> option instead, so the command line option may be a suboptimal solution.

I just saw the reminder of the existence of the `delete` command, and if
I had thought of that before composing the quoted email I would have
suggested `delete` instead of `remove` here.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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