Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] Make --execute default

[William Uther]

On 27/02/2007, at 7:59 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 06:44:44PM +1100, William Uther wrote:
> >   I've just finished a patch to make --execute the default.
> > Actually, it entirely removes the --execute option, and adds a new
> > option --bookkeep-only which is approximately the inverse of -e.
> > This also adds some checks to the drop implementation so that if you
> > try to drop a changed file (or a dir that isn't empty when it gets to
> > it) then it noisily falls back to --bookkeep-only.  This patch also
> > changes rename so that it warns when you're moving something and the
> > source is missing but the destination exists - it used to just
> > silently fall back to --bookkeep-only in that case.
>
> I just did some poking around on our competitors to see what UI they
> use for this stuff...

The one you missed was subversion :).  It isn't distributed, but that  
is irrelevant in this case.  My updated version of drop is very  
similar to subversion.  They have a --force option to force removal  
of modified files.  I don't think that is worth adding.

Will         :-}