Comment 3 for bug 1371951

If you delete/create/rename files in a folder (i. e. several hundred pictures and sidecar files), restoring with back in time messes up different states of files (some may be reverted to previous versions if they were modified, some may be recovered after deletion, renamed files will be doubled with the old name).

I agree that restoring should not delete files by default because this could lead to loss of data. But in some cases I would prefer bit to behave as requested. For version control systems for software development this is common. As a workaround the whole content of a folder can be deleted before restoring.