Hello the list,
I just lost a few hours trying to do this:
$ cd ~/.subversion
$ rm -f config
$ ln -s /path/to/another/config .
The link command kept failing, because "File exists"
WTF ?
Turns out I cannot remove ~/.subversion/* in one command, as some other process
is protecting them from deletion (but not from editing).
Eventually I did figure out the workaround, which is simply to join them into
one command
$ rm -f config && ln -s /path/to/another/config .
But it was a £*({ing annoying few hours between problem arising and finding
solution (and even more annoying that the solution was so simple)
I can find no documentation of this feature at
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/
http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-users/
so, I would like to ask:
a) where is it documented ?
b) can it be extended to other user-configurable directories ?
Thank you for reading this far, and any writing you might be able to do.
--
Alan
