Fwd: [svk-devel] 'svk rm -K' shouldn't insist on revert

[Chia-Liang Kao]

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From: Chia-Liang Kao <clkao at clkao.org>
Date: 30-Jul-2006 12:51
Subject: Re: [svk-devel] 'svk rm -K' shouldn't insist on revert
To: Christian Stork <svk-dev-list at cstork.org>


On 30/07/06, Christian Stork <svk-dev-list at cstork.org> wrote:
> % svk rm -K adjtime
> adjtime is modified, use 'svk revert' first.
>
> This makes only sense if 'svk rm' is used without the -K option.
> IMO this should just work.
>
> In my particular case I accidentally put /etc/adjtime under version
> control.  Obviously, I don't want to revert such files before I make svk
> ignore them...

Yes, I think we should fix this.

> So, any opinions on changeing this behavior?  And, for the meantime, is
> there a workaround?

The workaround is to edit ~/.svk/config, and add an entry about the
deletion.  You can see what it looks like if you try to svk rm other
stuff and see what's in ~/.svk/config.  But do make backup before
making changes this way.

Cheers,
CLK