[ale] How could I have avoided this?

[George Allen]

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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