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

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:53:44PM +1100, William Uther wrote:
> >I am tempted to request a special case for when every single untracked
> >child is an ignored file: move the directory into _MTN/trash/ and
> >print a warning.  (I'm not convinced this is a good idea.  Talk to
> >Derek, he was working on recovering from this sort of situation.)
> 
> hrm.  I could imagine allowing 'ignored' files to be deleted in  
> general.  They're sort of 'acknowledged by the system as not needing  
> to be tracked'.

Careful, or I'll have to pull the mission creep alarm.  (It's the big
tasseled bell pull, sounds like "AWOOOOOOOGA", summons forth the
mysterious ninja clan known as Yagni.  You know the one.)

> In any case, I'm going to fix the two issues above, allowing ignored  
> files to be deleted will have to come later.

Ah, I see the ninjas have already found you!  They are sneaky like
that.

-- Nathaniel

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