Howdy! First post. I found this group through this post on the Unix & Linux Stack Exchange: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/46538/are-there-pitfalls-to-putting-home-in-git-instead-of-symlinking-dotfiles/46835#46835
I'm experimenting with checking my $HOME directory into Git for the first time. Yesterday I read about various ways of doing this and experimented with vcsh, which is a really cool script. Today I'm trying out a very simple method. It just uses one Git repo located in $HOME with a .gitignore file that has contents like the following: # Ignore everything by default /* # "Unignore" this .gitignore file !/.gitignore # Add here everything else you want to unignore !/.vimrc This seems like a simple way to override Git's greediness while avoiding the problems that can arise with nested git repos (just don't unignore them and they won't cause problems). Can anyone here more experienced with versioning $HOME advise on problems that might arise with this approach? Thanks, Evan _______________________________________________ vcs-home mailing list vcs-home@lists.madduck.net http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-home
