From: Giuseppe Bilotta Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:55:55 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Zit: the git-based single file content tracker Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4901077A.7050904@gmx.ch> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Jean-Luc Herren wrote: > Hi! > > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> So today I decided to start hacking at a git-based but file-oriented >> content tracker, which I decided to name Zit. > > This sounds great and would seem very useful to manage my ~/bin/ > directory which contains a set of unrelated one-file-tools that > evolve over time. I haven't played with it yet though. Nice to see I wasn't the only one with such a need 8-) >> when you choose to start tracking a file with Zit [...] >> Zit will create a directory .zit.file to hold a git repository > > If you have many files you want to track in a single directory > (like ~/bin/), all those additional directories will quickly feel > like clutter. If you track every file, it will even double the > number of things you see with an "ls -a". Ah, good point, I hadn't thought about that. > If you decide against a shared repository, maybe you want to > consider to not use ".zit.file/", but ".zit/file/" as the > repository? This would reduce the clutter to a single directory, > just like with ".git". And moving files around wouldn't be that > much complicated. Right. I'll give that a shot. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta