From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Make CVS default revision controller Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 08:11:30 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84addegpkd.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <5l7k8mnf2o.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <84he7nuzww.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <87he7ndpyx.fsf@kruhft.vc.shawcable.net> <84smr780ju.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053673504 19312 80.91.224.249 (23 May 2003 07:05:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 07:05:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 23 09:05:03 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19J6bu-00051K-00 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 09:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19J6T7-0005RG-QC for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2003 02:55:57 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!skynet.be!skynet.be!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de (134.91.35.216) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1053672625 786801 134.91.35.216 (16 [73968]) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xoUdZFmW9WYchJM7YBWM+dhd/n4= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:113592 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10090 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10090 Benjamin Rutt 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. -- This line is not blank.