Re: [Monotone-devel] forbid: a (nicer?) alternative to obliterate

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 02:47:31PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Nathaniel" == Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Nathaniel> Would this feature actually make the people requesting
>     Nathaniel> obliterate support happy? 
> 
> I don't think you can make everyone happy. Somebody somewhere will
> disagree with the principles behind obliterate and modify their code
> to disable it. Or even if the version is not kept in monotone, it may
> be preserved in other forms (e.g. working tree).

Sure.  But when I ran into FreeBSD folks a few months ago (at the SoC
mentor summit) and talked about this a little, they had some definite
"well, we're trying to be realistic..." provisos... so they at least
don't want _everything_.  I just don't know what exactly they do want,
and it seems pointless to try to design a feature without even knowing
what the users demanding it want :-).

-- Nathaniel

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