From: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:01:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Having Git follow symlinks
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1401300958320.30100@ds9.cixit.se>
In-Reply-To: <CALKQrgf5o-ZcaeqXLm3P7RpK2yPcFd_HnG4ewwoEGESduyDSjQ@mail.gmail.com>

Johan Herland:

> I believe a preferable way to manage dotfiles in Git, is to have a 
> script that does the necessary setup/installation from the repo 
> (that lives in some subdirectory of ~) and into ~.

Yeah, but then I have copies of the files, instead of having the files 
themselves under version control, meaning I need to copy them back to 
push changes back, or to merge them. That is undesirable :-/

I do have a setup script for the CVS repo, but it just sets the 
symlinks up.


The only solution I can see is to split the repo up into several 
parts, one for each sub-directory that I previously had symlinked. Not 
perfect, but I guess I can live with that.

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