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Re: cvs repository broken?

From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 22:03:07 -0700
Subject: Re: cvs repository broken?
References: <200409101205.38712.aj@suse.de><20040910103700.GA20733@disaster.jaj.com><20040911035035.GK15401@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>

Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx> writes:

> Thanks, but, in the future, please do not remove the fileattr file.
> Instead, cp /dev/null to it.

Fun fact: '> filename' is a valid Bourne shell command all by itself
and has the same effect as cp /dev/null filename.

(for slightly less obscurity, ': > filename' works too.)

zw

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