[darcs-users] Re: most of the commands do not use dash to separatewords

[Jamie Webb]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:53:02AM +0100, Joeri van Ruth wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:30:17PM +0100, Albert Reiner wrote:
> > [zooko at zooko.com, Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:30:42 -0400]:
> > > As for "darcs remove", it might be best to eliminate that command,
> > > or at least to hide it in the section that we reserve for commands
> > > that are unnecessary and that sometimes confuse newcomers.
> > 
> > Please don't eliminate!  Not only would that break backward
> > compatibility, it is also a very useful command, just as unpull and
> > unrecord are.
> 
> I would suggest "darcs forget".

-1

Darcs will not forget the file. It just won't track any further
changes. In particular, 'forget' fails to indicate that the file will
be removed from any /other/ repo to which the patch is applied.

I don't see that 'remove' is any less obvious than 'rollback', and I
can't think of any succinct way of making clear that remove /does/
remove the file, just not from the current working copy. Since the
latter detail is eminently discoverable, it seems more important to be
clear about the former.

-- Jamie Webb