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Re: keeping one's personal dotfiles under CVS
From: |
Karl E. Jorgensen |
Subject: |
Re: keeping one's personal dotfiles under CVS |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:33:17 +0100 |
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:49:38AM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering what strategies do CVS gurus use to manage their
> personal collection of dotfiles. We all a favorite .vimrc, .exrc,
> .muttrc, ~/.w3m/bookmarks.html, etc. The problem is keeping them in sync
> on all the machines we use. CVS seems like a nice tool for that.
>
> How would you go about keeping a repository of personal dotfiles?
I'm not a CVS guru, but here goes...
I use rsync to keep those files in sync. CVS isn't intended as a
synchronisation tool, merely a (good) version control tool. The only
downside is that you have to be somewhat disciplined to avoid modifying
the same file on two boxes...
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Karl E. Jørgensen
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www.karl.jorgensen.com
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