Re: [Monotone-devel] update and other commands vs missing files

[Brian May]

Thomas Keller wrote:
> Still undecided about that - what if the file got accidently deleted? 
> Sure, its recoverable via revert and one has to look cleanly onto the 
> changeset one wants to commit anyways to avoid such accidential 
> deleted files, but I'm at least completly satisfied with mtn drop 
> --missing ...
If the file was accidentally deleted (any number of reasons), and the 
user fails to notice before committing the change (it was only a simple 
one line change made in a hurry), then the die-die-die merge algorithm 
will ensure the file cannot be recovered to its original state.

Better to be conservative and require files be explicitly dropped I 
think, at least until we remove the die-die-die merge algorithm.

Brian May