Quick! Run "darcs unrevert". > Hi! I'm using darcs and I found a nasty behavoir. > > I queued a file for add and didn't recorded since I wanted to add a few > more things. Then before record it I wanted to rename the file, so I did a > revert, expecting that darcs just removes the file from the 'add queue', > not the filesystem! > > I know it warns about the non-unrevertable nature of the operation, but I > never expected darcs (a program I use in some ways to protect my work) to > remove my files when they are not in revision control. > > I think 'darcs revert' on 'darcs add'ed shouldn't remove the file from the > filesystem, just remove them from the 'add queue' so they're not added to > revision control on the next record. Or at least make the operation > unrevertable (I guess is not hard at all to do it). > > I lost a lot of work because of this (it was just one file but a big one) > and I don't like it to happend to other people (since svn revert behavoir > is not to remove the file from filesystem, and is _the_ way to 'cancel' a > file addition, I guess a lot of people comming from it could have this > problem too), that's why I'm suggesting this change. And because I think > darcs is really great and this could make it better. I think that protect > user data in all possible ways has to be a key feature on darcs. > > Thanks. > > PS: Please Cc me, I'm not in the list. > > -- > LUCA - Leandro Lucarella - JID: luca(en)lugmen.org.ar - Debian GNU/Linux > .------------------------------------------------------------------------, > \ GPG: 5F5A8D05 // F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05 / > '--------------------------------------------------------------------' > <o_O> parakenotengobarraespaciadora > <o_O> aver > <o_O> estoyarreglandolabarraporkeserompiounapatita > > _______________________________________________ > darcs-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.abridgegame.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel >
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