Re: How do you add an external directory to repository?

From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
Date: Mar 7, 2010, 21:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20100307213624.GA12937@vidovic>
In-Reply-To: <1267992229319-4691734.post@n2.nabble.com>

The 07/03/10, slipstream180 wrote:

> I understand that I can add a symbolic link to /home/some/directory, but I
> believe that only track the link. How do I track all files under the
> directory as well?

I think you're looking for the bind option of mount. This is what I use to track all my configuration files in one "conf" repository.

Here is an extract of how my fstab looks like:

  /home/nicolas/.zsh /home/nicolas/dev/conf/zsh				auto	bind,user	0 0 
  /home/nicolas/.vim /home/nicolas/dev/conf/vim				auto	bind,user	0 0 
  /home/nicolas/.mutt /home/nicolas/dev/conf/mutt				auto	bind,user	0 0 
  /home/nicolas/.screen /home/nicolas/dev/conf/screen			auto	bind,user	0 0 
  /home/nicolas/.offlineimapconf/ /home/nicolas/dev/conf/offlineimap	auto	bind,user	0 0

I also use a symbolic link ~/.zshrc to .zsh/zshrc to track it too. This is very useful because one logical change may affect configuration files from various programs (e.g. have a new mailbox concerns mutt, offlineimap, imapfilter, and some other scripts of my own).

Also, I use this trick for web projects:

  /home/nicolas/dev/wsb /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wsb			auto	bind,user	0 0

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Nicolas Sebrecht