On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 03:04:59PM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > A "process" rather than "technical" question about subversion. > > My personal subversion repo is setup, works ok, etc. But I notice that > subversion only lets you checkout a directory, not a file. > > I want to manage (for example) my .bashrc file in subversion - how to do > it? I could check in all of /home/sonia, but I'd have to setup heaps of > exclusions - nasty. I could put .bashrc in /home/sonia/bin (for example) > and link to it "cd; ln -s bin/.bashrc .bashrc) - a hack. > > Any other suggestions?
Some people put there entire home dir into version control. Seems excessive to me. Your hack is a popular hack and sounds pretty reasonable to me. I'd use, say, a dir called checkout or tree or svn rather than bin though. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
