Try Git on XFS, it should be what you want. If you don't mind, after a month I'd like to hear your experience with version controlling your homedir. When I did it, it flipped the development bit in my head for my environment and now I don't lose my incremental improvements over time.
Patrick. On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 01:26:33PM -0700, Rogan Creswick wrote: > > Someone on here was talking about using git (I think?) to version > their home directory, and I'm considering this again; however, I have > 40 gigs of virtual machine files in there that will almost certainly > make this problematic. I *would* like those files to be > version-controlled, but from what I've read there aren't any great > options that will manage anything this large. The files are around 2 > gigs each, so it is not safe to assume that they will fit in memory, > since I am not willing to stop everything to version them. I don't > mind if it's processor/memory intensive -- there is a very large > difference in cost between getting up for a coffee/lunch while it > works and actually exiting all the apps. The latter means restoring > state that I can't easily save. > > Does anyone have suggestions? > > Thanks! > --Rogan > > > Patrick. -- http://haller.ws PGP 0x560F0523 = 1A66 B95A 0D66 9087 47D8 1CC4 9077 5028 560F 0523 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
