[ale] How could I have avoided this?

[Robert Reese]

This is usually done from the root directory, right?

RDAG...

R~

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On 10/28/2007 at 9:11 PM George Allen wrote:

>I usually do something like:
>
>mv .mozilla .mozilla~
>
>but... since I've been playing with 'git' lately, one could do:
>
>cd .mozilla
>git init
>git add *
>git commit -a -m "about to hack this dir to pieces... standby for disaster"
>git branch test
>git checkout test
><edit edit edit>
><frustration>
>rm -rf *
>git branch master
><yay, all the old files are back>
>git branch test
><all gone - back to frustration>
>
>etc....
>Also been learning mercurial lately - too bad neither really tracks file 
>permissions - so can't do something like check in your /etc/ dir....
>without 
>potential security problems on checkout
>
>-George
>
>
>On Saturday 27 October 2007 01:39:34 Robert Reese wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
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>> On 10/26/2007 at 8:35 PM John Mills wrote:
>> > [snip] I gave up and
>> >just blew away my '~/.mozilla/firefox' directory, taking with it my
>> >bookmarks, etc.
>> >
>> >How could I just have removed whatever tag was preventing Firefox from
>> >starting a new session?
>>
>> Couldn't you have simply renamed the offending directory so the
>bookmarks,
>> etc. could have been rescued?  I use that trick frequently to preserve
>the
>> data while removing its viability.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Robert~
>>
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