Hi everyone, Last week I decided I want to keep history of my org-mode file changes. I've accidentally lost things in the past when editing folded regions and this gives me a way to get back to the old version without requiring any extra steps during my normal work.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Background ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I keep all of my org files in a single directory tree (/home/bernt/git/org - or ~/git/org which is an alias to this in the bash shell) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Setting up the git repository ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I set up a git repository for my org files as follows $ cd ~/git/org $ git init I added a .gitignore file so editor backups and export files don't get in my repository. ,----[ .gitignore] | *.html | *~ | .#* | \#*\# `---- $ git add .gitignore $ git commit -m 'Ignore editor backup and export files' ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Creating commits automatically ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Then I added a cron job on my workstation which commits changes to the repository automagically. I decided commits once per hour is enough for me so I added the following crontab entry: $ crontab -e ,----[ My crontab entry ] | 0 * * * * cd ~/git/org && git add . && git commit -m "$(date)" >/dev/null `---- and I'm done. This picks up all my .org and .org_archive files and tracks changes hourly. If I change a file a new commit gets created on the next hour. If nothing changes no commit is created since there is nothing to add. This seems to work great for what I want. If I accidentally clobber part of a file I can get it back from the git repository. Here's an example of my current commits made by this setup. Notice it only creates commits when there are changes to save. $ git log ,----[ partial git log output ] | commit a518dc89a51f1740e5c2dfdf11f42ec56b9b3e61 | Author: Bernt Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Date: Tue Apr 1 11:00:01 2008 -0400 | | Tue Apr 1 11:00:01 EDT 2008 | | commit eb8f39383ab043b5be948c2ffe5d268bcbe5985f | Author: Bernt Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Date: Tue Apr 1 10:00:01 2008 -0400 | | Tue Apr 1 10:00:01 EDT 2008 | | commit 7a33955d889108746e0abb68dea1a3a310902427 | Author: Bernt Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Date: Mon Mar 31 18:00:02 2008 -0400 | | Mon Mar 31 18:00:02 EDT 2008 | | commit eacfe6e2342c89371adb3de5485d6f22271f836c | Author: Bernt Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Date: Mon Mar 31 16:00:01 2008 -0400 | | Mon Mar 31 16:00:01 EDT 2008 `---- Regards, Bernt _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
