From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Wooding Subject: Re: OT: data destruction classics (was: Re: Error converting from 1.4.4.1 to 1.5.0?) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:30:36 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Straylight/Edgeware development Message-ID: References: <17875.13564.622087.63653@lisa.zopyra.com> <17875.36879.872210.264473@lisa.zopyra.com> <45D3B4E7.8050408@fs.ei.tum.de> <200702150914.01361.andyparkins@gmail.com> To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 15 15:30:48 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 1HHhdE-0003xs-7k for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:30:44 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932824AbXBOOak (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:30:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932821AbXBOOak (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:30:40 -0500 Received: from distorted.demon.co.uk ([80.177.3.76]:61024 "HELO metalzone.distorted.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932824AbXBOOaj (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:30:39 -0500 Received: (qmail 5343 invoked by uid 110); 15 Feb 2007 14:30:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 5327 invoked by uid 9); 15 Feb 2007 14:30:37 -0000 Path: not-for-mail Newsgroups: mail.vger.git NNTP-Posting-Host: metalzone.distorted.org.uk X-Trace: metalzone.distorted.org.uk 1171549836 5154 172.29.199.2 (15 Feb 2007 14:30:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@distorted.org.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:30:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Andy Parkins wrote: > 4) rm -rf .* I'm nowhere near that impressive, unfortunately. Once upon a time, I was trying to build some package (I forget which) from its source distribution. It was an GNU-y Autoconf kind of thing. I didn't want to install it globally at that point, just in my home directory. So I said $ ./configure --prefix=~ $ make $ make install So far, so good. Now try to run the thing. $ foo bash: foo: command not found Oh. Where's it gone? $ ls That's annoying. Bad shell. It's failed to expand `~', and just put everything in a directory called `~' in my build tree. Bugger. I don't want it there. $ rm -rf ~ I wonder why it's taking so lo... ^C^C^C^C -- [mdw]