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  • I've been keeping my entire home directory under version control for a few years now, and it works great. When I connect to a new machine for the first time, I simply do:

    cvs -d:blah:blah:blah co HOME

    And I get my full home directory, with all of my configs and so on, right away. There's a small quirk though, in that this checks HOME out into a directory called HOME, but I follow it up with:

    (cd ./HOME; tar cf - .) | tar xf - ; rm -fr ./HOME

    This copies the CVS directories too, so update and commit work as expected. I've been contemplating moving to subversion (see the article below), but I really have no complaints with CVS (although Subversion would allow me to check it out into . and avoid the tar/rm dance).

    ONLamp.com [onlamp.com] had an article [onlamp.com] about this a few years ago. The article and comments have tons of good advice.

    --
    (darren)
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