Matthieu Moy:
One option is to have the symlink in the other direction: make
/etc/foo a symlink to $GIT_WORKTREE/foo and version the later.
I do that for the software that supports it, but ssh, for instance, is
very picky that ~/.ssh is a directory and such. And at least one of
the other
On 01/31/2014 04:56 AM, Peter Krefting wrote:
Matthieu Moy:
One option is to have the symlink in the other direction: make
/etc/foo a symlink to $GIT_WORKTREE/foo and version the later.
I do that for the software that supports it, but ssh, for instance, is
very picky that ~/.ssh is a
Peter Krefting pe...@softwolves.pp.se writes:
...if I have the time, maybe I can come up with a patch. There is
already some hacks in the core.symlinks setting, so I guess it
should be possible.
That is totally unrelated. The variable only says on this platform
and/or filesystem, you cannot
Peter Krefting pe...@softwolves.pp.se writes:
Oh, well, if I have the time, maybe I can come up with a patch. There
is already some hacks in the core.symlinks setting, so I guess it
should be possible.
I'd love to have a way to follow symlinks, but this needs to be done
with care: when
Johan Herland:
I believe a preferable way to manage dotfiles in Git, is to have a
script that does the necessary setup/installation from the repo
(that lives in some subdirectory of ~) and into ~.
Yeah, but then I have copies of the files, instead of having the files
themselves under
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Peter Krefting pe...@softwolves.pp.se wrote:
Johan Herland:
I believe a preferable way to manage dotfiles in Git, is to have a script
that does the necessary setup/installation from the repo (that lives in some
subdirectory of ~) and into ~.
There are tools
Peter Krefting pe...@softwolves.pp.se writes:
Yeah, but then I have copies of the files, instead of having the files
themselves under version control, meaning I need to copy them back to
push changes back, or to merge them. That is undesirable :-/
One option is to have the symlink in the
Hi!
Is there a (per-repo) setting to get Git to follow symlinks in the
working directory, i.e., to not store the symlinks themselves but
rather work on what they point to?
Background: I have a repository that stores a number of my dotfiles,
shared between all my machines (Linux, OSX,
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Peter Krefting pe...@softwolves.pp.se wrote:
Is there a (per-repo) setting to get Git to follow symlinks in the working
directory, i.e., to not store the symlinks themselves but rather work on
what they point to?
Not that I know of.
Background: I have a
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