Doxory?

seph: I want more of my dotfiles synchronized.

Asked 2 years ago

kyrandil: I was thinking symlinks and unison, but svn is basically the same for this.
Mark: I've used cvs for this for ... probably a decade now. Helps to symlink down into a "dotfiles" directory, lets you update locally more sanely...

kevinr: unison
nelhage: I tried the svn solution, didn't like. I don't have anything better, though.
nim: I put ~/dotfiles/ in svn and added a Makefile which runs m4 over them and installs the output as the dotfiles. The main problem I had with dotfiles committed directly in svn is I found myself wanting to customize them slightly based on the host, and not all dotfiles support that without an external macro tool. All that said, $HOME is also in svn. There are a lot of ignores. It is great.
tibbetts: Standardize on having your dotfiles in ~/dotfiles with a makefile/build-system to symlink them into place. Makes it easier to de-standardize a single dotfile without giving up on tracking them. Alternatively, give up on having dotfiles. Not customizing software is the new rock and roll.
glasser: Stick ~/.dotfiles into svn and symlink into it.
jmorzins: Stick dotfiles into a subdir of $HOME, have a script that copies or symlinks with $HOME.
beppu: I've found that darcs works very well in situations where you want to version control a pre-existing directory tree.
gugod: put them in ~/etc/ and write script to link them to $HOME. Then put ~/etc/ into svn.
geoff: That trick never works!

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