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Re: How can I delete a repository? Just 'rm *'?

From: Michael Wood <mwood_at_its.uct.ac.za>
Date: 2003-08-12 12:27:26 CEST

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 02:30:08PM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Kay Abendroth <kay.abendroth@raxion.net> writes:
[snip]
> > "How can I delete my existing repository, which I created with
> > 'svnadmin create /usr/local/svn/repository/', in a clean way? Is a
> > simple 'rm *' all I have to do?"
>
> What does 'clean' mean? 'rm -rf repository' will indeed delete your
> entire repository. Were you expecting some other behavior?

"rm -r repository" works just fine. No need for "-f" and I feel that
use of "-f" when it's not necessary is a bad habbit :)

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>
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