Re: Proposal: Undo add

Simon Large wrote:

> That's a good thought too. If files/folders marked for Add are missing
> at commit time they show up in the commit dialog as missing, but it is
> not obvious what to do next. If you tick the box to enable them for
> commit then they are silently reverted at commit time. That's a useful
> behaviour, but the implementation seems counter-intuitive. The context
> menu offers 'Revert', which I think could be 'Undo add', and 'delete'
> which also does the job, but generates an error message when it tries
> to delete the non-existent file. The 'Delete' context menu entry
> doesn't really make sense for a missing item.

In trunk, the 'Delete' is only shown for files/folders with status
'normal' or 'ignored'.

> How about silently reverting added files which are missing, and remove
> them from the commit list. There is no data loss because the files
> don't exist anyway. If the files really should be added, the result is
> no worse than if you forgot to add it in the first place.

That's not a good idea. The commit dialog has to show that these files
are missing, because the files might be missing accidentally - meaning
the user didn't delete the files but maybe they got deleted by some
build script. The user must be made aware of that fact - after all, he
wanted to *add* the file, but now it's missing. That means that
something didn't work as expected.

Stefan

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