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1. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2019 03:37:25 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield
   How do I create a file called -d?
   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 26 20:36 "-d"
   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 26 20:36 \-d
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2019 03:38:06 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     I've added '-d to my collection, lol
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2019 03:40:08 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     when it doubt, google it...
     
     touch ./-d
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2019 03:49:19 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @musicman #TIL. Those are the kinds of files that one usually creates by accident, then one must figure out how to invoke `rm` in a way that removes (only) that file.
   • ‭‮ʀᴇᴛᴛɪᴡT‮ 💀 (https://mastodon.technology/@twitter)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2019 03:53:42 UTC ‭‮ʀᴇᴛᴛɪᴡT‮ 💀

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     • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

     @lnxw48a1 @musicman i love the tell-tales of scp gone wrong:
     `username@destination`

     LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} repeated this.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2019 04:00:36 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     I have no idea if you know anything about how Perforce works, but...
     
     I made a changelist that wanted such a file. I know how to remove it from a changelist, but I don't know how to remove it from all the changelists. I figured it would be easier to just submit the file than to figure out how to do the mess.
     
     Now that I am thinking it through though, i have two other numbered changelists. I bet if I had deleted both of those I'd have gotten rid of them.
     
     In P4V, our visual client, it's easy to delete files from changelists.
     
     So, tested my theory a little before hitting send:
     
     root@dwhitfield-CentOS7-p4d-withgui:~# p4 -u newuser -p 10.5.10.123:10000 change -d 45292
     Change 45292 has shelved files associated with it and can't be deleted.
     root@dwhitfield-CentOS7-p4d-withgui:~# p4 -u newuser -p 10.5.10.123:10000 change -d 45312
     Change 45312 has shelved files associated with it and can't be deleted.
     
     So, in this case I could unshelve those files, but I already submitted those empty files, so they are out of my hair. I suppose I could delete all of them now.
     
     The whole reason p4d thought I was trying to submit them is because I had 'p4 add submit -d "description"'
     
     While in reality I wanted p4 submit -d "description"
     
     so, yes, I had to add the file description as well. I had spaces, but that's easy enough...and I had to add the file submit...which is fine.
     
     It's not a glowing endorsement of the product at some level, but the fact that I've been in support almost a year and a half and haven't actually needed to know how to do that is an endorsement of a type.
     
     I don't think anyone ever accused any VCS tool of being intuitive though, lol. I mean, I know people think git is once you start using it, but when you are learning it.
     
     With great power comes great complexity...
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2019 04:14:59 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @musicman I don’t have any knowledge of #Perforce other than occasionally reading some of your posts. But it is good to see that your problem is solved, even if it meant submitting empty garbage files as part of your bugfix submission.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2019 04:19:19 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     @lnxw48a1 to be clear, just a test server, not a real submission