Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Execute by default?

[Thomas Moschny]

On Freitag, 16. Februar 2007, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> Thomas Moschny wrote:
> > That's why I personally would prefer the third option. An unmodified file
> > can safely be dropped. A modified file can safely be forgotten. These are
> > the operations that can be undone easily. No need to clobber the UI
> > with --extra-switches.
>
> I agree that --execute is a bit unnecessary and that un unmodified file
> can safely be dropped, but "a modified file can safely be forgotten"
> seems false to me: in that case you forget potentially important local
> changes...

No, I meant it in the following way:
'forget' a file == don't treat it as versioned anymore, but keep it on disk, 
as opposed to 'drop' == 'forget' and 'delete' it.

So you don't lose local changes when you 'forget' a file, because you still 
have the file contents on disk.

- Thomas

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