try: "rm -Rf config"
Cheers / Erik
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Alan Brogan <abro...@altobridge.com> wrote:
> 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 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 .
>
> But it was a £*({ing annoying few hours between problem arising and finding
> solution (and even more annoying that the solution was so simple)
>
> I can find no documentation of this feature at
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/
> http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-users/
> so, I would like to ask:
>
> a) where is it documented ?
> b) can it be extended to other user-configurable directories ?
>
> Thank you for reading this far, and any writing you might be able to do.
>
> --
> Alan
>
