Re: subversion equivalent of 'cvs update -C'
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:58:51PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
>> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
>> > I wouldn't be so quick to discount subversion. :) I keep much of my
>> > home directory in it, and it's behaving very nicely.
>>
>> Me too. It seems to be working well so far. If nothing else, at least
>> it beats having all those annoying CVS directories lying around...
>
> What are you doing about partitioning public and private dotfiles? I'd
> like to be able to check out public parts of my home directory (e.g.
> .bashrc) onto any machine where I have an account, but private parts
> (e.g. .fetchmailrc) only onto machines where I'm also root. So far I
> haven't come up with a good way to do this, especially because symlinks
> and Unix permissions aren't versioned yet.
I haven't run into this problem yet. So far for files that are
site-specific (like my .emacs file), I've been able to code them to
detect the environment and adjust accordingly.
> The best I've come up with is a .hide directory for private things and a
> (partially written) 'svnfix' script that sorts out symlinks and
> permissions after each checkout based on some properties I set.
I used to do something similar when I was using CVS for my home
directory. Since I didn't want it tracking stuff directly in my $HOME,
I tucked it away in a subdirectory and used a script to take care of
symlinks and stuff. It sucked. :)
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