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. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
