Re: Keeping your dotfiles in git

2008-08-27 Thread chombee
Ok, I see the points regarding why you should use symlinks, why it's worth putting things in a dotfiles directory, and why you can't just use a single ln command to create the symlinks. I wonder what you should use instead then? A simple script seems to be in order. If I were to write a script I

(valid) criticisms of Git addressed (was: I am using fsvs and just found svnhome in google...)

2008-08-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Juliano F. Ravasi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.08.27.0302 +0100]: 1. Both don't see directories. Just because a directory is empty doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. If I delete all files in a directory, it doesn't mean that that directory ceased to exist. Some programs don't expect

Re: Subversion corruption

2008-08-27 Thread Juliano F. Ravasi
martin f krafft wrote: I do not recall the details, but I've had numerous occasions where I'd have to dump and restore the repository with svnadmin because some obscure errors prevented me from using the repository. Hum... if you can properly dump and restore, then the repository is not

Re: (valid) criticisms of Git addressed

2008-08-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Juliano F. Ravasi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.08.27.1958 +0100]: If you emptied your inbox, why keep it around? I expect the tools I use to recreate empty directories aqs needed. Yes, but some programs don't expect their directories to disappear. Then I think those programmes are