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Re: [O] automatically follow symlink to other folder when loading agenda


From: J. David Boyd
Subject: Re: [O] automatically follow symlink to other folder when loading agenda
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:05:51 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (cygwin)

address@hidden (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes:

> J. David Boyd writes:
>
>> I have 4 files I use for work in my main org folder.  And I have 
>> a personal.org in another folder, that is inside of Dropbox. 
>> 
>> I created a symlink to personal.org in my main org folder. When 
>> I start emacs and load the agenda, it asks me 
>> 
>> Symbolic link to Git-controlled source file; follow link? (y or 
>> n) 
>> 
>> Is there some setting (that I can't seem to find) that will 
>> always just allow this, rather than querying me?
>  
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
>   (setq vc-follow-symlinks t)
> #+END_SRC
>
> BTW, I think that using dropbox in a git controlled directory 
> might not be a good idea: if there are conflicts of files inside 
> of the .git directory between two machines, you will never notice 
> them because dropbox doesn't report them, so the actual git repos 
> might be different between the two machines. I you are using git, 
> why don't you clone the main org directory in the other machine 
> and pull changes when you use the other machine?
>
> Best,


Thanks for the warning.  Git is actually going to go away on a few of those
folders.  I was using that to keep synced between a few linux machines, but am
going to use dropbox instead.  I don't need the level of versioning that git
provides for the few config files and org files that I have there.

Dave




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