[issue1665] hg purge not activated by default

[Vincenzo Ampolo]

New submission from Vincenzo Ampolo <vincenzo.ampolo at gmail.com>:

Hi,

In hg version 1.1.2, in Ubuntu 9.04, hg purge is not activated by default (it
was previously)
I use this feature very often cuz i compile my project in the hg source tree for
testing and then i use hg purge to clean the compiled applications after the
testing.

I talked in #mercurial in irc.freenode.net and it seems that this extension have
been not enabled by default anymore cuz "people that play with hg purge can
delete files that they need". Well, i don't like this "security through
obscurity" approach which is common in non Free Software as hg is.

Instead i liked the bzr approach about it.
bzr clean-tree points you a list of all the files that will be deleted and then
it asks you a simple question "Do you want to delete these files? [y/N]".

I think it should be the way hg purge should work and then it should be enabled
by default.

Thanks.

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messages: 9334
nosy: goshawk
priority: feature
status: unread
title: hg purge not activated by default

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