[darcs-devel] "darcs mv" vs. "darcs remove" is confusing

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

This problem continues to vex new users.  (See issue127 for a few examples.)

My co-worker just used "darcs mv", and then expected there to be an 
analog "darcs rm".  He was irritated that it didn't work, read the 
resulting usage message, figured out that there was a "darcs remove", so 
he used that, not realizing that it wasn't doing what he wanted.

He reports that if you just rm a file under Subversion then Subversion 
complains about it later, and you are supposed to use "svn rm" to 
cleanly remove it, so he expected to have to use "darcs rm" to cleanly 
remove things from darcs.

He suggested that maybe "darcs rm" could simply print out an error 
message saying "Just rm it." and do nothing else.

In any case, he finds the difference between "darcs mv" and "darcs 
remove" to be inexplicably inconsistent.

Added a note to issue127.

http://bugs.darcs.net/issue127

Regards,

Zooko