removing files deleted from the working tree

[Max Bowsher]

On 17/08/10 23:52, Joey Morris wrote:
> From the Bazaar tutorial: "You can delete files or directories by just
> deleting them from the working directory. This is a bit different to CVS,
> which requires that you also do cvs remove." I'm fairly new to version
> control and Bazaar. What is the rationale behind this behavior? Is it solely
> for the convenience of not needing a bzr remove?
> 
> It seems a little dangerous to delete files without an explicit bzr remove.
> To be fair, I guess it's dangerous only if you aren't paying close attention
> to the output of bzr status before you commit, which is bad practice anyway.
> Even so, I think I like Mercurial's behavior better, where the status
> command identifies deleted files as "missing" instead of "removed", and a
> commit doesn't remove missing files from the branch.

Coming from CVS, Subversion and Mercurial myself, Bazaar's behaviour
here felt a bit odd to me too, at first, but after a while I've come to
believe that Bazaar's choice saves some keystrokes and hurts nothing, so
now I like it.

> Can I configure Bazaar
> so that bzr remove is required to remove a file?

Sorry, no, it's not optional.

Max.

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