Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:58:51PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: >> Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > I wouldn't be so quick to discount subversion. :) I keep much of my >> > home directory in it, and it's behaving very nicely. >> >> Me too. It seems to be working well so far. If nothing else, at least >> it beats having all those annoying CVS directories lying around... > > What are you doing about partitioning public and private dotfiles? I'd > like to be able to check out public parts of my home directory (e.g. > .bashrc) onto any machine where I have an account, but private parts > (e.g. .fetchmailrc) only onto machines where I'm also root. So far I > haven't come up with a good way to do this, especially because symlinks > and Unix permissions aren't versioned yet.
I haven't run into this problem yet. So far for files that are site-specific (like my .emacs file), I've been able to code them to detect the environment and adjust accordingly. > The best I've come up with is a .hide directory for private things and a > (partially written) 'svnfix' script that sorts out symlinks and > permissions after each checkout based on some properties I set. I used to do something similar when I was using CVS for my home directory. Since I didn't want it tracking stuff directly in my $HOME, I tucked it away in a subdirectory and used a script to take care of symlinks and stuff. It sucked. :) -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
