On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:28:47PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> This works reasonably well for me, but I have yet to figure out how
> to deal with .gitignore.
I've been using a repository layout based on an earlier email you sent
to the list; I keep gitignore files in ~/.var//gitignore and set
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.08.26.2255 +0100]:
> Google and you can find lots of people who keep their dotfiles in
> a git repository. Usually they create a directory such as
> ~/dotfiles/ and they move all the dotfiles they want to track into
> that directory, and creat
Ok, I see the points regarding why you should use symlinks, why it's worth
putting things in a dotfiles directory, and why you can't just use a
single ln command to create the symlinks. I wonder what you should use
instead then? A simple script seems to be in order. If I were to write a
script I wo
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-27 00:00]:
> I fail to see the point in having a dotfiles directory. […] Why
> not just create the git repository directly in your homedir?
For Subversion there might not be a point. For git and most other
DVCS, there is: since it tracks trees and n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Second, to create all the symlinks you only
> need a simple command not a script: `ln -s ~/dotfiles/* ~/`.
That won't deal with dotfiles that are renamed or deleted.
> I'm not entirely clear on why, in the examples I've seen, the -s option is
> used to create symbolic
I was doing this briefly in the past (and spoke about it on this list),
but the system I setup was too awkward and it soon got left behind. Now
I'm revisiting the idea, and I want to do it in as simple and convenient a
way as possible. For one thing, I'm planning on using GitHub as the
central serv
