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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Lloyd D Budd <ll...@foolswisdom.com> on 2002/11/14 19:45:02 UTC

OT: Re: HOWTO: Screw up a repository (svnadmin load repo > svn_dump)

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 13:35, Scott Lamb wrote:
> As Karl said, this is a shell thing. Most shells have a "noclobber" 
> option that will check if the file already exists and require you to do 
> ">|" explicitly to destroy its contents. So if you want to be safe, a 
> "set noclobber" in your .bashrc (not .bash_profile, that wouldn't affect 
> subshells) and you should be good.

It is actually "set -o noclobber" I believe.


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