Deleting directories in cr.openjdk.java.net (original) (raw)

Neil Richards neil.richards at ngmr.net
Thu Oct 20 11:37:01 PDT 2011

Hi, According to the Community Code Review documentation [1], one should be able to delete a tree of files and directories by sftp'ing to one's account:

    sftp <username>@cr.openjdk.java.net

then using 'rename' to move the tree into the ~/.trash subdirectory:

    rename 6543210 ~/.trash/6543210

However, when I try to do this, it always tells me that I don't have the permissions to do this.

Instead, when I've had to prune something out, I've only been able to do so by using a protracted set of 'rm' (for files) and 'rmdir' (for emptied directories) which, as you can imagine, quickly becomes exceedingly tedious.

Is this a problem that other (committers) have encountered ? Are there suggstions as to any better approaches to pruning one's contents ?

Any guidance gratefully received.

Thanks, Neil

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/guide/codeReview.html/

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