Bazaar Explorer and removal

[Ian Clatworthy]

Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> On 24/09/2009 08:25, Russel Winder wrote:
>> Agreed.  The point here is that Bazaar Explorer copes fine with people
>> using delete (e.g. rm) from a command line or from a file manager, and
>> that is good, but there is also the "bzr rm . . . " command and this
>> needs to be reflected in Bazaar Explorer since it is actually a
>> different concept of remove from the file manager one.
> 
> I recall seeing that such operations were deliberately excluded from the
> scope of Explorer, at least in a first time. Perhaps it is a good time
> to introduce them?

It is.

> Not only rm, but also mv: these are precisely the kind of operations not
> necessarily easy/nice to do on the command line, even with
> auto-completion on, particularly rm on lot of files in various folders
> or mv to a different directory.

Lack of rename/mv support is a big functional hole in explorer and one
of the reasons I haven't called it 1.0 yet. After all, great rename
support is a big Bazaar strength so not having it in explorer is quite
tragic.

I'm planning to have rename as an context menu option in the working
tree once it intelligently filters things to show versioned vs
unversioned vs ignored items. That won't be quite enough though because
some users will need 'rename after the fact'. We'll need a QBzr dialog
to support that feature.

In summary, this is high on my list. After I finish doing some doc
cleanups  for 2.0 (plugin guide and website) and fast-import fixes
(making it easier for users to migrate to Bazaar), I plan to get on to it.

Ian C.