- git in squeeze vs. wheezy/sid behave differently: the former happily & silently overwrites existing files, the latter dies loudly on each existing file. – not sure which behaviour I actually prefer.
- running mr up on a couple of repos from a machine without an ssh key on the target machine is kind of boring ...
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random musings about computers, life, and everything
random musings about computers, life, and everything
2011-10-24 04:09:37 +0200
managing $HOME
I'm not the first one who thought about managing their dotfiles &
scripts in a (D)VCS in order to be able to have them in sync across
different machines, & I even haven't re-invented the wheel for doing so.
– short report on my experiences:
after
looking
around
a
bit
I decided to try movein
(info page with links to downloads & a README,
blog post,
git repo)
because it looked liked it would easily do what I'd like to do without
getting in my way too much; which means e.g.: no symlink farm, & only
one simple command to manage the whole setup.
movein is a simple shell script that allows to setup & manage
multiple modular repos tracking different sets of files quite easily, taking
advantage of the powers of git & mr. & being
written in shell means I also was able to make a few changes, which stew
kindly accepted & applied to his tree already.
in fact I'm just starting to use it for real, but it looks good so far,
& I think I'm going to stick with it for the time being.
2 minor observations:
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