[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:       
     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):

  * keywords:  => docs usability tahoe-rm easy
  * milestone:  undecided => 1.6.0


Comment:

 Hmm. This is how Unix {{{rm}}} has always worked -- it doesn't delete a
 file if there is another link or open fd to it. The only difference on
 Tahoe is that since it uses capabilities that have a string
 representation, there can always be a copy of that representation
 somewhere.

 I'm not sure that renaming it to {{{unlink}}} would help much. The docs
 could certainly be improved, though -- for example {{{tahoe rm --help}}}
 says nothing about what {{{rm}}} actually does! Fixing that would be easy.

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Ticket URL: <http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/776#comment:1>
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