On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 09:45:02PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > * Don't make the git repository directly in your homedir. You don't > > want git operating on 'live' config files, as this isn't what git was > > designed for, and who knows what might happen. If git dumps some merge > > conflicts into a config file while the file is in use, you could break > > your system. > > This could happen with svn too. The worst case I can think of would be > if .profile has merge markers that the shell thought looked kinda like > redirection. I've never seen the merge markers truely break something > like that in several years of using svn for my home. The worse I see is > a web browser or music player failing to start because it can't parse > its config. > > Anyway, there are plenty of places that merge markers could be inserted > into files in a linux kernel tree, or other thing that git is > semi-intended to be used for, with similar potential for bad results if > you type 'make' at the wrong point. > > I'd draw the line at (non-fast-forward?) merging into /etc. I like my > passwd file. Anything else, I can recover from.. > > Of course if you feel safer copying stuff around, that's fine too, I > think it would be too annoying for me though.
Is there some way to get git-pull to abort if it's not going to do a fast-forward? I think it just does a merge automatically. That's the problem, cause you might not be expecting it. It'd be good if it could warn you if a non-fast-forward merge was gonna happen. I originally had a .git right in ~/, but I was scared away from doing it by people on the git irc channel. I have to admit, I couldn't really think of anything terrible that could really happen. Especially in my case, when I only check in a few config files and ignore almost everything. The worst example was if your .bashrc got merge markers in it, then you would not be able to launch a terminal. But to be honest, I think the terminal would launch anyway, and just complain. Then you just fix it. I managed to break a .muttrc on one host too, which was annoying, but not hard to fix. It turns out it's really inconvenient to _not_ have .git directly in your homedir for config files. git status can't tell you what you have modified. And you have to remember when to copy files into the repo, and when to copy them out of the repo, for each machine. A large reason for versioning everything with git is to reduce the amount of stuff you have to keep track of mentally. Just commit your work and push it, let the repo remember for you. You don't even have to remember what files you've modified as git can tell you. But this doesn't work if you have to do all the copying manually. You'd have to seriously script around this inconvenience, so I guess it's not worth it. I'm going to go back to a repo in my homedir, but only for config files. I'll just tell .gitignore to ignore everything for that repo, and then checkin those few config files I want tracked. _______________________________________________ vcs-home mailing list [email protected] http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-home
