On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Jan Danielsson <jan.m.daniels...@gmail.com>wrote: > > I'm willing to bet that the number of times people will type "fossil > mv/rm X Y" and not actually want to mv/rm X to Y just afterwards is > vanishingly small. More to the point; let's reverse your "-s"-flag; I.e.: > > $ fossil mv X Y > > ... renames X to Y (metadata and filesystem). > > $ fossil -d mv X Y > > ... as in "Don't actually move" will only change the metadata, and > the user can then use the mv command afterwards to manually rename/move > the file in the filesystem. > > The last option doesn't make any sense at all. Which is sort of my > point.. I think such an option would be used roughly zero times; but > your proposed "-s" would be used almost 100% of the time (when people > learn about it). And this goes back to that "ten things I hate about > git"-list; when commands counter-intuitively require extra flags to get > the canonical behavior. >
While the numbers may be in favor of the "-s" or whatever option, I doubt the other behavior would be used zero times. It happens occasionally that I want to remove a file from version control, but not the actual file. -- ˙uʍop-ǝpısdn sı ɹoʇıuoɯ ɹnoʎ 'sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ ɟı
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