Kev Jackson wrote:
On 5 Jul 2006, at 23:21, Steve Loughran wrote:
Alexey Solofnenko wrote:
I would like it to be default with <delete>. It is [almost] always
required.
It's there to stop you destroying your source.
you can go <delete dir="/" /> and although your filesystem is doomed,
we will at least preserve your CVS and svn metadata :)
Like offering a sticking plaster/band aid to a victim of the guillotine...
I remember working on a shared unix cluster where someone as root did an
rm -rf /bin instead of (in a temp dir) rm -rf bin
There was this pause while it took too long, they realised what what
happened and ^C'd it, but by then it was too late. Suddenly all these
people in their cube jump up at the sight of errors like "ls : not
found" and other cues that the FS was toast...
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