tchomby <tcho...@googlemail.com> writes: > Using one big git repo for your homedir has many advantages over > using many small repos: > > * It's simpler.
Yes, though that simplicity can be limiting: treating your entire directory as a single big working tree may not be the best fit. > * You only have to create the repo once. Creating new repos is a > PITA. After a simple git init; git add .; git commit; you have to > make a bare clone of the repo, scp that to your central server, then > update the original repo to track the central clone, _and_ clone the > repo onto your other machines, add it to your mrconfig file... It's > complicated enough that things are likely to go wrong. Wow, that does sound like a PITA. I'm glad I'm using Bazaar; replication is simply a matter of ‘bzr push’ or ‘bzr pull’, depending on the direction. > * You are less likely to lose files. With many small repos, it > becomes almost as easy to lose an entire repo as it was to lose a > file before you started versioning your homedir. It sort of defeats > the point. With one big repo I just commit a new file to my repo and > forget about it, then I know I'll never lose that file, the point is > to avoid me having to think about it. With many repos I have to > consider which repo a new file should belong to, even whether I > should create a whole new repo for it. If one aligns repositories with whatever working tree is being used for the project, that seems to be a non-issue. > * With many repos you have to somehow keep track of them all so you > need a tool like mr, one more tool to learn, and that means you need > to manage a mrconfig file. I don't know what “keep track of them all” would mean beyond simply navigating the filesystem. > * With one big repo git log gives you a global history of all your > files, a sort of log of what you've been doing on a day-to-day > basis. This can be really handy. For example I have to meet with my > supervisors every few weeks. Instead of using my memory I can just > use git log to help me construct a progress report. It also sounds like an awful mess. I want the log to show what I've been doing in the context of the specific working tree, without the dozens of other things going on in the same home directory. -- \ “When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until | `\ I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried | _o__) other enemas...” —Emo Philips | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ vcs-home mailing list vcs-home@lists.madduck.net http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-home
