On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Patrick Haller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try Git on XFS, it should be what you want.
oof... how critical is XFS to the equation? I'm also hoping to do nightly pushes to a smb-mounted filesystem. Does Git handle nested repositories reasonably well? What issues should I be aware of? (I tried using cvs on my home dir a long, long time ago, and it was a total disaster because I didn't think about the implications of nesting... ;) Thanks! Rogan > > 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
