want a way to cleanup versioned-but-ignored files

[Martin Pool]

Users report from time to time they have ignored files and are surprised they're still versioned.

I think the current behaviour of versioned-overrides-ignored is still right, but we could perhaps provide a UI for this. Perhaps 'bzr rm --keep --ignored --interactive' should ask you if you want to unversion those files.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 01:57 +0000, Martin Pool wrote:
>
>
> I think the current behaviour of versioned-overrides-ignored is still
> right, but we could perhaps provide a UI for this. Perhaps 'bzr rm
> --keep --ignored --interactive' should ask you if you want to
> unversion
> those files.

<humour>Linus would be proud</humour>

Surely the users getting confused are precisely those that won't know to
add such options?

So perhaps:
 - note that they won't be unversioned (we already do I believe)
 - but also output a command they can run to unversion those files.

-Rob

[Martin Spacek (mspacek)]

Can anyone provide a command line command that would do this?

I've changed my mind about a bunch of files that I've versioned, updated my .bzrignore to reflect that, and now I want to unversion all files that would normally have been ignored if I'd had this .bzrignore file from the start.