On 24 Jun 2016, at 12:27, Jeff Bingham <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now anytime you make a change to the files, jump into the 
> /usr/local/etc/dotfiles/ directory and commit the changes.
> An automated option could be to create a script (called by cron.daily) that 
> runs 'git status --porcelain' in the dotfiles repo and if any results are 
> found, it commits all changes.
> It would need to generate a commit message so as Steve mentioned, one of the 
> best features of versioning is that the commit messages explain what was 
> changed.  In this case, the messages wouldn't matter but at least you would 
> have a history of your changes.

That sounds workable. Maybe even a limited diff output send as the commit 
message.

Something like “line 47 changed from <old line47>” or “7 lines changed”

I’ll have to ponder on that.


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