Re: HOWTO: Screw up a repository (svnadmin load repo > svn_dump)

Jostein Christoffer Andersen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I did somethithing bad today: -I destroyed a repository (but was saved by
> a backup) and it was easy as:
>
> svnadmin load repo > svn_dump
> ^^^

As Karl said, this is a shell thing. Most shells have a "noclobber"
option that will check if the file already exists and require you to do
">|" explicitly to destroy its contents. So if you want to be safe, a
"set noclobber" in your .bashrc (not .bash_profile, that wouldn't affect
subshells) and you should be good.

Scott

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Received on Thu Nov 14 19:36:16 2002