From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: Make CVS default revision controller
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 08:11:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84addegpkd.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wc3fzn6r4o5.fsf@gamma.cis.ohio-state.edu
Benjamin Rutt <rutt+news@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
> kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> FWIW, I use CVS for my config files. Then it is very easy to use
>> them on different machines. I love it.
>>
>> But I use the symlink trick. I wrote a Makefile that creates all the
>> necessary symlinks, and I use "make install" from time to time
>> whenever I think that the symlinks should be corrected.
>
> When you say "symlink trick", do you mean that you have a directory
> under CVS control, somewhere, anywhere, and the contents of that
> directory are a bunch of symlinks which link to the real config file
> location?
No, the other way round. I have a directory ~/work/kai/dotfiles
which is a CVS working directory. And ~/.emacs is a symlink that
points to ~/work/kai/dotfiles/.emacs.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-20 8:35 Make CVS default revision controller marcuirl
2003-05-20 9:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-20 12:36 ` Niels Freimann
[not found] ` <mailman.6455.1053434411.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-22 8:51 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-22 11:46 ` marcuirl
2003-05-22 13:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-22 15:24 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-22 14:29 ` Burton Samograd
2003-05-22 15:26 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-22 17:21 ` Edward O'Connor
2003-05-22 22:35 ` Benjamin Rutt
2003-05-23 6:11 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-05-22 14:58 ` Harald Maier
2003-05-22 15:22 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-23 8:26 ` marcuirl
2003-05-23 11:48 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-05-23 14:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-26 6:56 ` marcuirl
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