Re: A git story

2010-03-11 Thread Joey Hess
This is a problem I'm increasingly stuggling with as I have more and more git repositories, that were converted from old subversion repositories etc. How do I make sure I don't accidentially delete a repository that has historical data I will want later? How do I know which historical repository to

Re: A git story

2010-03-11 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Ha, i'm about to break your moral. I'm looking at moving from my own Subversion server (mostly b/c it's become a pain to manage from behind ISP dynamic DNS and I don't need a server running all the time) to the hosted service at rsync.net. Soo, there are some image and data files from old project

Re: Another dotfiles manager

2010-03-11 Thread RĂ©mi Vanicat
martin f krafft writes: > also sprach chombee [2010.03.10.1822 +0100]: >> I'm sure everyone already has their own one of these, but I just wanted >> to post my dotfile manager: >> >> http://github.com/seanh/dotfilemanager >> >> I've been using it for a while now and it seems to work well, I've

Re: Another dotfiles manager

2010-03-11 Thread chombee
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:50:01PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > I think the killer point is that you can remove a file from the > > .config directory and detect dangling symlinks, while you wouldn't > > be able to tell a dangling hard link apart from an untracked > > config file. > > Oh, but

A git story

2010-03-11 Thread chombee
I kept all my files in a git repo. Eventually the repo got too big to handle. I archived the .git file and started afresh with git init. Now I'm looking at some really old work (from a couple of years back), from my notes I can't figure out some exact details that I need, and the history of my git

Re: Another dotfiles manager

2010-03-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Pavel Avgustinov [2010.03.11.1322 +0100]: > >From what I can see, the host-specific linking (i.e. prefer > >a file with suffix "__foo" on host foo). I wonder whether this isn't something for VCS branches anyway > > Similarly, I wonder why people use symlinks instead of > > hardlinks.

Re: Another dotfiles manager

2010-03-11 Thread David Bremner
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:02:23 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > I wonder what these offer that GNU stow or xstow couldn't do. I never thought of using stow for that before, so thanks for mentioning it. There are probably some benefits to having a specialized tool that does not require extensive cu

Re: Another dotfiles manager

2010-03-11 Thread Pavel Avgustinov
On Thursday 11 March 2010 12:02:23 martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach chombee [2010.03.10.1822 +0100]: > > I'm sure everyone already has their own one of these, but I just wanted > > to post my dotfile manager: > > > > http://github.com/seanh/dotfilemanager > > > > I've been using it for a while

Re: Another dotfiles manager

2010-03-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach chombee [2010.03.10.1822 +0100]: > I'm sure everyone already has their own one of these, but I just wanted > to post my dotfile manager: > > http://github.com/seanh/dotfilemanager > > I've been using it for a while now and it seems to work well, I've > ironed out a couple of bugs tha