On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 01:13:49PM +0000, Alan Brogan wrote: > 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 deletion (but not from editing). > > Eventually I did figure out the workaround, which is simply to join them into > one command > $ rm -f config && ln -s /path/to/another/config .
What OS is this? Was svn running at the time? Sounds like an OS issue. AFAIK Subversion has no special logic to protect its config files. tyler
