Re: How Subversion drove me to shoot myself in the foot.

On 4/17/2006 4:51 PM, Michael Goetze wrote:

> However, "svn delete" refused to work... couldn't get a lock. So I did
> "svn cleanup" and "svn delete" again... nope, still not working. Well, I
> don't need a lock, I just want to get it out of the system. So "svn
> --force delete" and then start again.

It's unfortunate that you've lost some files, but you've learned something:

  - People don't require a "--force" option unless it is going to do
something that you are probably going to regret. Do a backup first.

Remember Fred Davidson's two laws of computing:

1. Back it up.
2. Do it now.

By the way, if you were using some crappy filesystem like FAT, it would
be relatively easy to recover your deleted files.

Duncan Murdoch

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Received on Tue Apr 18 19:23:24 2006