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Re:Running "n stable" removed bin, lib, share, include direc... by emmelaich on Sunday October 07, 2012 @08:34PM (#4624979)
The change also has one of my pet hates: the -f flag to rm. It not only means force, it means ignore errors. If you're not interested in errors, why attempt to do it in the first place?
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Re:Running "n stable" removed bin, lib, share, include direc... by benatkin on Sunday October 07, 2012 @10:10PM (#4625207)
git has done an excellent job of bringing this abuse into the 2010s. If you need to delete a local copy of a git repo, which is often only useful for a couple minutes while evaluating code, you have to do something to override the read only files git creates. Mercurial doesn't have this issue.
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Re:Running "n stable" removed bin, lib, share, include direc... by cma on Sunday October 07, 2012 @11:15PM (#4625369)
chmod
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Re:Running "n stable" removed bin, lib, share, include direc... by jlgreco on Monday October 08, 2012 @12:02AM (#4625461)
I think it is a great flag, if used with that functionality in mind. Useful reasons very similar to why the -p flag to mkdir is useful.
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Re:Running "n stable" removed bin, lib, share, include direc... by Confusion on Monday October 08, 2012 @11:37AM (#4627327)
To remove stuff?
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