Re: [Q] Tell Git to follow symlinks?

From: Remi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org>
Date: Feb 24, 2008, 15:08 UTC
Message-ID: <87zltq2xzn.dlv@maison.homelinux.org>
In-Reply-To: <c6c947f60802240305w40a7af96yc47f90e573384c04@mail.gmail.com>

"Alexander Gladysh" <agladysh@gmail.com> writes:

> I thought to construct my repo of the number of symlinks to other
> places, but apparently Git does not follow any simlinks.

Hope so, I use this feature, for example to manage my debian alternatives.

> Please give me some directions on the building such dumb backup
> system I want :)

I use "reverse" symlinks: the files i want to manage are replaced by symlink to the file that is in then git repository:

my home contain:

.abbrev_defs -> .myconfig/abbrev_defs .bash_logout -> .myconfig/bash_logout .bash_profile -> .myconfig/bash_profile .bashrc -> .myconfig/bashrc .custom -> .myconfig/custom .dircolors -> .myconfig/dircolors .emacs -> .myconfig/emacs .gnomerc -> .myconfig/gnomerc .gnus -> .myconfig/gnus .irssi -> .myconfig/irssi/ .profile -> .myconfig/profile .ScrollZ -> .myconfig/ScrollZ/ .scrollzrc -> .myconfig/scrollzrc .xchat2 -> .myconfig/xchat2/

and a .myconfig git repository that manage those file.

-- 
Rémi Vanicat