bzr assumes I want to remove the file if I delete it from the filesystem

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 04:26:54PM +0100, Mark Rosenstand wrote:
> Bjorn Tillenius wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I got surprised about how bzr worked, and I'm not sure it's a bug or
> > not, I would say that it is, though.
> > 
> > If foo is a versioned filed, and I do 'rm foo; bzr commit'. Should bzr
> > really remove the file from the repository then? It seems quite odd to
> > me, especially since I temporarily removed a file from the file
> > system, and forgot to 'bzr revert' it before I committed... What's
> > the best way of restoring the file with all its history retained?
> 
> IIRC it doesn't matter if you commit or not, if you rm a file you can't
> get it back easily. We had a talk about it in #bzr a while back. I
> think we came to the conclusion that it was a bug, but I don't know if
> it has been fixed since 0.6.
> 
> It would be nice to see another release soon (and more often in
> general).

+1

I agree, a new release would be very welcome now. Robert said that the
0.7 theme was getting acceptable performance without rsync, and we're
not there yet. Recent developments (Johan's knit work, duchier
and others profiling/optimisations) look promising, but I don't have a
good idea when 0.7 would be ready. If it looks like next year, I'd prefer
doing an intermediate 0.6.3 release when bzr.dev is reasonably stable.

Wouter van Heyst