[darcs-users] unrecord causes deleted files to be remembered

[Jamie Webb]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 06:52:05PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> The real problem is this, on top of my previous transcript:
> 
> >     % rm this
> >     % darcs whatsnew -l -s
> >     R ./this
> 
>     % darcs whatsnew
>     {
>     addfile ./this
>     rmfile ./this
> 
>     }
> 
> ie, the addfile + rmfile is incorrectly summarized as "R".

Seems like the correct solution is to have an addfile and subsequent
rmfile within a single patch 'annihilate'. That means that the correct
way to undo an add is just to remove the file again. It corresponds to
what happens if you edit a file and then change it back.

-- Jamie Webb