[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #776: users are confused by "tahoe rm"

[tahoe-lafs]

#776: users are confused by "tahoe rm"
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 Reporter:  zooko                         |           Owner:  davidsarah
     Type:  defect                        |          Status:  new       
 Priority:  major                         |       Milestone:  1.6.0     
Component:  code-frontend-cli             |         Version:  1.4.1     
 Keywords:  docs usability tahoe-rm easy  |   Launchpad_bug:            
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Changes (by davidsarah):

  * owner:  => davidsarah


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:2 zooko]:
 > I'm not sure "This is how unix has always done it." is a sufficient
 response to the criticism of "Users are confused by it.".  :-)

 Didn't intend to suggest it was. I do think this is basically a
 documentation bug rather than a problem with {{{tahoe rm}}}'s behaviour,
 though. (A "destroy" operation as described half-way down
 http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-September/002861.html and in
 http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-October/002957.html , in
 contrast, would act on files, not directory entries.)

 How about having {{{rm}}} output a message such as "''n'' directory
 entries removed (rm does not delete files)."?

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Ticket URL: <http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/776#comment:4>
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