There's a big community of people who use version control for their home
directory, mostly centered around Joey Hess who wrote one of the
earliest articles discussing the concept [1]. There's also a mailing
list [2] and a wiki [3].
As for the original question, Joey is working on a project called
"git-annex" [4], which allows you to manage the existence of files with
git without checking in their file contents. This lets you, for
instance, use a git workflow of pushing and pulling to remotes to
perform synchronization of large files (git push ~/mp3-collection),
among lots of other things.
- Adam Compton
[1]: http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/06/svn_homedir.html
[2]: http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-home
[3]: http://www.theficks.name/VCS-Home/HomePage
[4]: http://git-annex.branchable.com/
On 10/3/12 2:59 PM, Aaron McCaleb 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
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