command name to remove a working tree preserving the branch

Martin Pool mbp at sourcefrog.net
Tue Feb 21 05:00:19 GMT 2006


On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 19:06 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:01:09PM +1100 I heard the voice of
> Robert Collins, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> > Martin suggested 'bzr discard'.
> 
> CVS has a "release" command which does the closest comparable thing
> CVS has (affecting a checkout).  I think I like 'discard' better.

Yes, I thought of and rejected the name 'release' too, because it so
strongly associated with the idea of making a software release.  So
'discard' sounds pretty good, and could be generalised to discarding
branches, checking that there's no unmerged/uncommitted information,
etc.

-- 
Martin

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