From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: OT: data destruction classics (was: Re: Error converting from 1.4.4.1 to 1.5.0?) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:13:52 +0000 Message-ID: <200702150914.01361.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <17875.13564.622087.63653@lisa.zopyra.com> <17875.36879.872210.264473@lisa.zopyra.com> <45D3B4E7.8050408@fs.ei.tum.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Simon 'corecode' Schubert , Bill Lear To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 15 10:14:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HHch9-0005Fs-0l for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:14:27 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965294AbXBOJOJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:14:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965336AbXBOJOJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:14:09 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]:41056 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965294AbXBOJOG (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:14:06 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so85673uga for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:14:05 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=cOaqjKgBccZaLnPjzVagsnTwy6Xq+2qLmMxASlTt3dvvPkS1Emoo1NLFSPpFHT0lvHCrJP70T+2i9EKPXmHecjSJCqc3rb2K6EijuHhIlJlbtf9h7Zevpt2cGf2QUbpdMFdVR7ti9chu4DPvtzMGWifKeJEzKZ+qEP8uur6RJxk= Received: by 10.67.92.1 with SMTP id u1mr1444509ugl.1171530845390; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:14:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from davejones ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id j33sm1871528ugc.2007.02.15.01.14.03; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:14:03 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: <45D3B4E7.8050408@fs.ei.tum.de> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thursday 2007 February 15 01:18, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > > I'm still muttering to myself that I could be that dumb... How about this: 1) "I should like to clean up root's home directory" 2) cd /root; ls -la . 3) "Oh, there are a lot of config file in this directory that I don't need any more" 4) rm -rf .* Now start crying softly to yourself, when you realise that ".." is covered by ".*". Now go to every computer you work on and put export GLOBIGNORE=".:.." In your .bashrc. Boy, was my face red... Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@gmail.com