Re: CVS'ing home directory files; CVS in place

[Eric Siegerman]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 05:49:01PM -0400, Donald Sharp wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 01:03:06PM -0700, Glew, Andy wrote:
> > I want to use CVS to version control files in my home
> > directory, such as ~glew-home/.cshrc.
>
> Why don't you create a subdirectory that you checkout
> everything into.
> 
> Then from your home directory create symlinks into the subdirectory.

I've done this.  It works great ... and has the fringe benefit that
I can tar up the subdirectory to get it to machines that can't reach
my CVS server (or that don't (yet) have CVS installed).

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