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?
I use a directory called ~/.dotfiles which contains a few *.bashrc and *.profile files, a vimrc, an Xdefaults, etc. I either include them from the top-level instance e.g. in .bashrc: test -d $HOME/.dotfiles && . $HOME/.dotfiles/*.bashrc or just symlink them in. Cheers, Gavin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
