[PATCH] hg revert should unlink copied and renamed files
Bryan O'Sullivan
bos at serpentine.com
Mon Nov 7 17:17:52 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 17:43 +0100, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> > This change does not seem correct to me.
>
> the idea i had was that hg revert is destructive and
> renames and copies can be removed since the original file will be
> (or can be) recreated.
That's a perfectly reasonable idea; it just happens to not be
correct :-)
> > In the case of file removal, what if the removed file has been replaced
> > with a new file that has the same name?
>
> we can check if a file exists, but the user already knew it if he did a
> 'hg status' before.
This still strikes me as unsafe.
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