On 04/04/13 20:09, Georg Baum wrote:
> This is a feature that did only work for RCS for a long time, and which I
> extended to the other VCS as well recently: If you try to open a file, and
> the file does not exist locally, and you are in a tree which is under
> version control, and the file exists is the repository, you are asked
> whether you want to retrieve it. The rationale is to prevent users from
> accidentally creating a new file with a name that does already exist in VCS.
> If the file is not in VCS, you should not be asked.
>
> I believe that this is a useful feature, so the question is: Does it behave
> like I described in your case? If not, it is a bug and should be fixed.
It is NOT behaving as u described, namely it is asking me to check out from the
repo any non-existing file on the FS, not only files which are in the repo.
The patch I sent fixes the behaviour to exactly what you described.
T.
