begin  quoting Lan Barnes as of Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 05:24:43PM -0700:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 04:44:50PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:52:06PM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote:
> > > > Any advice how to manage this complexity?
> > >
> > > Put it all under version-control.
> > 
> > 4. Your repository will grow huge after a while if your $HOME changes
> >    a lot.
> > 
> 
> Not really. You'll only be storing the diffs of the files that change.
> With all due respect to your energy in changing things, I doubt if that
> will get huge.

Even if he stored _all_ of the configuration files, uncompressed, it
still wouldn't amount to much.

It's images and video that's huge.  Text... is small. Relatively
speaking.

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