Fossil SCM
turn clean command off on a repository
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· opened 16 years, 9 months ago
- Type
- Feature_Request
- Priority
- Medium
- Severity
- Important
- Resolution
- Not_A_Bug
- Subsystem
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- Created
- June 22, 2009 7:39 p.m.
I would like fossil to turn off the clean command adminastrativly. This is for managing config files on a server, ie /etc. I would not want to put /etc/shadow in fossil but I would really be bumed if I typed "fossil clean" and it was not.
Thanks for the quite useful tool btw,
marc
Comments (1)
This doesn't sound terribly realistic in terms of expected features. A user cannot (normally) disable a specific menu of a program just because he doesn't like it, and fossil running in local (not network) mode assumes the user knows what he's doing - it offers lots of chances for users to shoot themselves in the foot if they're not careful (e.g. irrevocably losing stashed changes via 'close'ing the repo). Such a feature also implies the addition of a --force (or similar) command to force execution of a disabled command. That, in turn, would give the user back his gun so that he could shoot himself in the foot again. It would also have side-effects on any commands which themselves use such a flag for other purposes.