On May 4, 2009, at 16:08, Brian Warner wrote: > On Mon, 4 May 2009 09:32:17 -0400 > Ben Hyde <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That was my first guess; but then I created an alias - letting it >> do the >> mkdir for me - and I am unable to rm that alias. >> ... >> >> Hm, now I'm thinking this is, in part, because I created the alias >> example via 'tahoe create-alias example'; i.e. let it do the mkdir. >> So there isn't anything to unlink it from. > > Bingo. "rm" is used to remove a link: a link from some parent > directory to > some child object (a file or a subdirectory). Your top-level alias > isn't a > child of anything: the only place that remembers it is your aliases > table (in > ~/.tahoe/private/aliases). If you want to forget about it, just edit > that > file and remove the line.
Is there any reason 'tahoe rm foo' shouldn't edit the aliases table? If I understand the model correctly, it would be unambiguous. -- Kevin Reid <http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/> _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
