From: Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 09:43:13 GMT
Subject: Re: contrib/git-normal-to-bare.sh
Message-ID: <CAOsGNSRm8QChOupsY_Z++qDOMh4hXq-9A_Z2X6uY5o-tFMNj0A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqr4gs23u6.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

On 5/27/13, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> writes:
>
>>    rm -rf $repo
>
> The user would appreciate if you check that there are no uncommited
> changes and no untracked files (at least no untracked and not ignored
> files) before running this.
>
> Also, it's "$repo", not just $repo, or you'll get surprising behavior if
> $repo contain spaces.
>
> The safe way would actually be stg like:
>
>   rm -fr -- "$repo"

Thanks.

In my later email, I changed it to mv - should have highlighted there
was a change. I got bitten, on a small repo thankfully, where a perms
or ownership problem caused the whole repo to disappear. So mv it is
:)

BTW, I've subscribed for a little while now...

Thanks again
Zenaan