On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:49:38 +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand sent 0.7K bytes: > I was wondering what strategies do CVS gurus use to manage their > personal collection of dotfiles. We all a favorite .vimrc, .exrc, > .muttrc, ~/.w3m/bookmarks.html, etc. The problem is keeping them in sync > on all the machines we use. CVS seems like a nice tool for that. > > How would you go about keeping a repository of personal dotfiles?
As someone else replied, rsync might be better. I do use CVS for this purpose though. It may be overkill, but it works. I have a module called private/scottu that I checkout to ~/common. In there, I have all my resource files layed out - in general with leading '.' removed, and then I have a couple makefiles that create links to these files with the appropriate name in my home dir or subdirs. E.G. it makes these links ~/.vimrc -> ~/common/vimrc ~/.vim -> ~/common/vim/ ~/.cshrc -> ~/common/cshrc ~/.csh -> ~/common/csh/ ~/.mutt -> ~/common/mutt etc. HTH -- It's currently a problem of access to gigabits through punybaud. -- J. C. R. Licklider _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs