Re: Could not un- and re- link ~/.subversion/config

2010-03-08 Thread Alan Brogan
On Mar 6, 2010, at 16:52, Ryan Schmidt wrote: As someone explained earlier in the thread, a Subversion client recreates the ~/.subversion directory when it runs, so something is causing a Subversion client to run. Oops! Apologies to Alexey for not appreciating the import of what he said

Re: Could not un- and re- link ~/.subversion/config

2010-03-05 Thread Alan Brogan
To: Alan Brogan abro...@altobridge.com Cc: users@subversion.apache.org Sent: Thursday, 4 March, 2010 15:38:24 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: Could not un- and re- link ~/.subversion/config On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 01:13:49PM +, Alan Brogan wrote: I just lost a few hours

Re: Could not un- and re- link ~/.subversion/config

2010-03-05 Thread Alan Brogan
It is not the file it is the directory It happens on multiple different OSs (at least Linux and OSX) On all of them it happens only in ~/.subversion -- Alan - Original Message - From: Alexey Neyman sti...@att.net To: users@subversion.apache.org Cc: Alan Brogan abro

Could not un- and re- link ~/.subversion/config

2010-03-04 Thread Alan Brogan
Hello the list, I just lost a few hours trying to do this: $ cd ~/.subversion $ rm -f config $ ln -s /path/to/another/config . The link command kept failing, because File exists WTF ? Turns out I cannot remove ~/.subversion/* in one command, as some other process is protecting them from