Removing file from repository without erasing file...

[Steve Borho]

On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 22:11 +0100, Mathieu Clabaut wrote:
> I was unable to find it on the BTS. Do you have the issue at hand ?
> (In fact I wanted to open such an issue in order to put a link on a
> patch :
> http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2007-November/003515.html
> but I found your message and thus my question)
> 

The closest I can find now is issue438.  The problem described in 438,
the inability to unversion a file without deleting it, has been
addressed by allowing 'hg rm --after'.  

The problem now is that there is no way to unversion a modified file
without deleting it.  Current behavior:

hg rm --force modified-file          # force remove, unversion
hg rm --after file                   # unversion, keep
hg rm --after --force modified-file  # force remove, keep (doh!), unversion

Your patch changes this behavior to:

hg rm --after --force modified-file  # keep, force unversion

issue541, which was just closed yesterday, suggested the syntax
'hg rm -keep'.  I think this has cleaner semantics.

hg rm --keep file                    # keep, unrevision
hg rm --keep --force modified-file   # keep, force unrevision

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