On 07/10/13 23:27, Joseph R. Justice wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Alaric Snell-Pym > <ala...@snell-pym.org.uk <mailto:ala...@snell-pym.org.uk>> wrote: > > > I've written a backup/archival tool based on content-addressible > storage, and a common question people ask is "So why don't I just put my > home directory/entire filesystem in git, then?", and I have to raise > this aspect of the quite different goals between backup and source > control :-) > > > I note that there are people who *do* put their home directories, .rc > files, etc under source control. (IIRC, I've read stories in, like, > Linux Journal, lwn.net <http://lwn.net>, blog stories, etc.) I have the > distinct impression that, often, at least part of the reason for doing > this is that the user has multiple systems they regularly use, and they > wish to keep the personal configuration details and I suppose also the > personal data stored on/for for each system as consistent between > systems as is reasonably achievable to achieve.
I do that with a fossil repo that I check out in ~/alaric, which .emacs, .bashrc and a few others symlink into. ~/alaric/bin goes on my PATH, etc. But it keeps it all locked away in one subdirectory, and doesn't mean I have a very cluttered "fossil extras". ABS
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