On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:25:21 -0600 Erich Heine <sophac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > A while back I was discussing the whole VCS-home stuff with a friend, and we > came to the conclusion that there are some real issues with storing dotfiles > in a repo. Things like passwords, or company/machine specific paths, > internal hosts, etc, can complicate the issue quite a bit. This is > particularly true of simple programs that use single, flat, text files for > rcfiles. It is very frustrating when you have a file that is 98% the same > across hosts, but those differences between the instances are dangerous to > leak. > > In the programming world, we of course solve this by just putting the > sensitive values in a different file, and don't keep it under version > control. This is sort of the origin of the whole config file concept to > being with :). Programming languages tho, have the idea of include/import, > and file reading, and variables, so this becomes easy. This got me thinking: > what if we could make config files arbitrarily composable? I like to use separate branches for this. > I sure would appreciate your thoughts, bugfixes, etc on > this. Another problem is some apps try to be clever and update your configs for you. How do you handle that? Is the Fuse fs mounted ro ? Dieter _______________________________________________ vcs-home mailing list vcs-home@lists.madduck.net http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-home