[Orgmode] Re: Request for suggestions: multiple revision control systems/repositories + org

[Matt Lundin]

Robert Goldman <address@hidden> writes:

> I am looking for hints.  I have a number of org files, typically one for
> each major project plus two or three for my personal life.
>
> These must often live in different revision control systems: my work
> projects, in particular, have different repositories; I have a main set
> of org files for work in ~/org/, tracked by my employers' svn;
> occasionally, I do something outside, like work on a paper with someone
> outside my company in a dedicated git repo; and I'd like to stuff my
> personal materials off in a git repo of my own.
>
> I have been pulling all of these together into my ~/org directory, using
> symbolic links, for the benefit of mobile org.  That is, my ~/org
> directory has my main work org files, plus links to a bunch of others.
>
> That works well for syncing with mobile org.  Unfortunately, it's a mess
> for Emacs's version control mode.  VC mode sees the .svn directory in
> that place, and can handle the local files, but gets horribly confused
> by the sym-linked files.

In my experience, VC mode has a lot of issues with symlinks. I solved
these with the following:

(setq find-file-visit-truename t)

> Extra credit if you have a way of creating the same set of symlinks on
> more than one machine! ;-)

I use relative symlinks. Then I simply ensure that all repositories have
the same directory structure relative to ~/ on each machine.

Best,
Matt