-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/28/2013 10:24 AM, Patrick Mylund Nielsen wrote: > To rephrase, I don't understand why anyone would push their > /home/user / backup git repository to a public one on GitHub :)
For the use case of personal config files, it makes setting up one's preferred environment across multiple machines easier. One can check out their customized /.*rc/ files, their desktop customizations, and other such things instead of recreating the config files by hand. I do this with the contents of my ~/.config/backpac/<hostname>/ directories on my Arch Linux machines, because I can do a bare-bones install and then use Backpac to deploy my laptop package list, my workstation package list, my server package list, et cetera without having to leaf through a number of notebooks to figure out what package names I need to start installing. So long as the user does not do something dumb, like including crypto keys in the repository, chances are most-but-probably-not-all of the contents of those repos are not sensitive, so the user probably cares little about making their personal settings for their text editor of choice public. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS|Media] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "You can't condemn an entire species." --Ganthet -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlEGn2AACgkQO9j/K4B7F8ESLwCfawDP0WGKg1f3bMu3nG8wJjwO jmQAn36M+wNZKsuvUM3ABefogmacdJ/q =ehmt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
