[tahoe-dev] CLI mkdir inverse?

[Kevin Reid]

On May 4, 2009, at 16:08, Brian Warner wrote:

> On Mon, 4 May 2009 09:32:17 -0400
> Ben Hyde <bhyde at pobox.com> 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.

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Kevin Reid                            <http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/>