It's not *very* unorthodox I suppose, but: vim + vimwiki + mercurial + whole-disk-encryption/eCryptFS + cron = work notes system and daily journal with entries every half-hour, all transparently encrypted and available on every machine I use and backed up in multiple locations, It's not much, but I find it useful.
On 3 October 2012 22:59, Aaron McCaleb <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, all. > > I'm suffering a bout of unsatisfied curiosity: What are some un-orthodox, > but useful applications for version control systems (VCS) that you have > employed or heard of others employing in day-to-day work? > > My own un-original example: importing my home directory into a VCS > repository to essentially provide an archive solution with considerable > "backup" history. (This was something I remember being suggested in a > magazine article, possibly by David Blank-Edelman [ http://goo.gl/jJwiP]. He > also suggested this in one of his "Over-the-edge System > Administration" talks at LISA'07, I think.) > > Cheers! > --Aaron > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > -- Mark Dennehy
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