Re: vcsh: use branches instead of repos?

2015-06-26 Thread Sitaram Chamarty
On 06/27/2015 08:36 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: >> [1]: https://github.com/sitaramc/gaf > > gaf expands to "gitify arbitrary files"; out of interest, where did > you pick up the term "gitify"? Hmm... I don't know; isn't "-ify" a common

Re: vcsh: use branches instead of repos?

2015-06-26 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > [1]: https://github.com/sitaramc/gaf gaf expands to "gitify arbitrary files"; out of interest, where did you pick up the term "gitify"? Richard ___ vcs-home mailing list vcs-home@lists.madduck

Re: vcsh: use branches instead of repos?

2015-06-26 Thread Sitaram Chamarty
Thanks for your reply! (thanks to madduck, RichiH, Antonio also). On 06/27/2015 12:17 AM, John Whitley wrote: > Hi Sitaram, > > This is tricky. vcsh’s approach to overlaying fundamentally relies on > having multiple git indexes available, one for each separate *working Yes; my mistake was askin

Re: vcsh: use branches instead of repos?

2015-06-26 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: >> That being said, if you switch from branch zsh to branch vim, you will >> delete the copies of your zsh config in $HOME. > > Is that a documented feature or an accidental one and might it change in > future? This is a fundamental desig

Re: vcsh: use branches instead of repos?

2015-06-26 Thread Antonio Ospite
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:07:37 +0530 Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > Hi, > > (I couldn't find this > on a quick google search, or on github issues search) > > Would it be possible to use a single repo, with each configuration (vim, > zsh, etc) being a *branch* in that repo, rather than each config bein

Re: vcsh: use branches instead of repos?

2015-06-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Sitaram Chamarty [2015-06-26 08:37 +0200]: > Would it be possible to use a single repo, with each configuration > (vim, zsh, etc) being a *branch* in that repo, rather than each > config being its own repo? How would this work? Would you then simple create checkouts of each branch wit

Re: vcsh: use branches instead of repos?

2015-06-26 Thread John Whitley
Hi Sitaram, This is tricky. vcsh’s approach to overlaying fundamentally relies on having multiple git indexes available, one for each separate *working directory*. This implies a separate .git directory (or in vcsh’s case, a separate bare repo, e.g. “vim.git”) for each overlay. It doesn’t ma

Re: vcsh: use branches instead of repos?

2015-06-26 Thread Sitaram Chamarty
On 06/26/2015 10:44 PM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Vcsh does support branches. > > That being said, if you switch from branch zsh to branch vim, you will delete > the copies of your zsh config in $HOME. Is that a documented feature or an accidental one and might it change in future? > That is mo

Re: vcsh: use branches instead of repos?

2015-06-26 Thread Richard Hartmann
Vcsh does support branches. That being said, if you switch from branch zsh to branch vim, you will delete the copies of your zsh config in $HOME. That is most likely not what you want... Richard Sent by mobile; excuse my brevity. ___ vcs-home mailing