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| author | Kyle Edwards <kyle.edwards@kitware.com> | 2019-11-15 14:57:38 (GMT) |
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| committer | Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2019-11-15 14:57:56 (GMT) |
| commit | 5695b0464b411746b207da2ee23b8e2d9f8ffec2 (patch) | |
| tree | 82e1a00666f6e8a026b7af578801b9b38d8e04ce /Help/release | |
| parent | 1d78e1a966912d35e1dea0e986bc0b977141e880 (diff) | |
| parent | 2d0100fac7a51327ce8053b4ab2277aaa96c12a5 (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'cmake-e-rm'
2d0100fac7 replace remove and remove_directory with rm in tests
5239fc5c75 cmake -E: Add rm with improved semantics over remove and remove_directory
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !3949
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| -rw-r--r-- | Help/release/dev/command_rm.rst | 12 |
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diff --git a/Help/release/dev/command_rm.rst b/Help/release/dev/command_rm.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a58362e --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/release/dev/command_rm.rst @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Command-Line +-------------------- + +* :manual:`cmake(1)` gained a ``rm`` command line + option that can be used to remove directories (with ``-r`` or ``-R`` flag) + and files. + If the ``-f`` flag is not specified, attempting to remove a file that + doesn't exist returns an non-zero error code. + This command deprecates ``remove`` and ``remove_directory``. + The ``remove`` implementation was buggy and always returned 0 when ``force`` + flag was not present and a file didn't exist. It cannot be fixed without + breaking backwards compatibility so we introduced ``rm``. |