[darcs-devel] darcs revert remove not controlled files.

zooko at zooko.com zooko at zooko.com
Mon Sep 26 07:45:57 PDT 2005


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.
> 
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