Joshua Tilles wrote: > I'd been looking for something with which to explore using Darcs, and > right now I'm trying to set up using Darcs on my dotfiles. I really like > Eli Barzilay's > approach<http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2010/02/16/dotfiles-in-git-finally- did-it.html/comment-page-1#comment-126903> > to putting his dotfiles under source control, but his description is > Git-specific. > > A pre-emptive thanks for any help! > --Josh > > > *TLDR;* > Can I make some repo /foo/bar/_darcs "watch" the directory /foo rather > than watching /foo/bar?
I don't think so. I may be wrong but I believe darcs only ever knows of files 'below' the one that contains the _darcs directory. The problem in general is this: you want to keep file X that has a fixed location in the file system under version control but you do not want everything under the parent directory of X to be considered to be potentially part of the same repo. This is especially true if the directory in question is your home directory. Otherwise if you happen to issue 'darcs whatsnew -l' somewhere in your home folder that is not part of some darcs repo, you will (after waiting for several minutes) get a HUGE list (all files anywhere under you home). At work I am using the following solution (not for ~/.xyz but in a similar situation): I create a subdirectory e.g. ~/dotfiles, put the repository and all the files I want to keep under version control there, and then create symbolic links in the home directory to the files in the ~/dotfiles subdirectory. The creation of all the symbolic links can be automated with a simple shell script, e.g. cd $HOME/dotfiles foreach f in .*; do ln -s $HOME/dotfiles/$f $HOME/$f; done (warning: not tested) Cheers Ben _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
