Author: Vic
Date:
To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] error competition
> Yes, I did have a backup.
Some weeks back, a customer of mine typed something like
make proj=foo clean
To clean up his project. Except that he didn't. He typed
make proj= foo clean
The Makefile wasn't all that well written, so when it tried to rm -rf
./$proj , it did quite a number on the rest of his code.
No, he didn't have a backup. No, he hadn't checked his work into svn, as
corporate standards require.
I earnt many brownie points for getting his data back :-)
Vic.